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Proposals for a four-day working week have a familiar ring, but last week shorter hours for the same pay became a more likely prospect for the 1970s. I. W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers of America, served notice that the shorter week will top the list of his union's demands in 1971 contract negotiations. The 32-hour week, he said, would create more jobs and improve productivity by reducing fatigue...
...members of Apollo 11's crew are seasoned, imperturbable astronauts. Armstrong, known as an inscrutable loner, flew Gemini 8 to the first successful space docking. Aldrin, a hard-driving perfectionist, set the record for space walking (5 hr., 30 min.) during the four-day flight of Gemini 12 in 1966. Collins, the most relaxed and outgoing of the three, helped steer Gemini 10 through complicated rendezvous and docking maneuvers...
...four-day journey to publicize ten volunteer self-help projects on the West Coast, her first official solo trip since Inauguration Day, Mrs. Nixon was a model of warmth and graciousness-flashing her smile and her topaz brown eyes at shy children, embracing self-conscious elderly women, and offering her hand to hesitant black men. She coolly endured heckling at one stop, seemed oblivious to the herd of newsmen pursuing her along her 6,000-mile itinerary, and gratified anxious project directors with her insatiable curiosity-and her ability to attract publicity...
...entitled." When John L. Lewis, 89, died last week at Washington, D C.'s Doctors Hospital, he had been president emeritus of the United Mine Workers since 1960. Remembering his years of active leadership, the miners appropriately honored him by walking out of the pits for a four-day period of mourning...
...ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...