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PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 2--Ninety intellectuals from the U.S. and 27 other countries gathered at the rustic Princeton Inn last night to begin a four-day discussion of U.S. internal problems and their bearing on the future of world politics and culture...
Fifty-nine Wellesley students have begun a four-day fast for peace in Vietnam. The fast from all solid food is scheduled to last from midnight Sunday until midnight Thursday, according to Nancy Ross, editor of the Wellesley College Student News and a leader of the demonstration. Wellesley held a similar hunger strike for peace last spring...
...battling the Government in defense of their lucrative but controversial system of fixed minimum commissions. As part of an eight-month effort to unsnarl the paperwork jam that has slowed brokers' back-office operations, the exchanges and over-the-counter market last week decided to remain on a four-day trading week throughout September. Beyond all that, the Merrill Lynch case is clearly Wall Street's newest, worst nightmare, if only because it is bound to raise doubts about the habits and methods of brokers everywhere...
...Wednesday holiday was tolerable-at least to the boss, who could count on two solid days of work before and after it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays were painful. Employees looked at him reproachfully if he did not throw in the extra Monday or Friday to make a full four-day holiday...
...that first awful morning last week, many Americans phoned relatives and friends; unable to speak the unspeakable, they just said, "Turn on the television." Thus began a four-day period in which TV and radio attempted to link a distraught country into a comprehending whole. They succeeded to a remarkable degree...