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...generally decried, as the Devil's work, employers' injunctions to stop picketing. Picket Patriarch Lewis, however, had a familiar hot potato tossed into his own hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row, pickets from A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions challenged access to some half-dozen Liberty ships owned by American Coal Shipping, Inc. A part owner of A.C.S.: United Mine Workers. At week's end the pickets in Charleston, S.C. were gone, shooed away by court injunctions obtained while Employer Lewis sat by-unprotestingly, at the very least...
Almost before the firing ceased, the British and French had frogmen down inspecting the hulls of the half-dozen ships scuttled by the Egyptians in Port Said harbor. Not until nine additional blockboats which had been scuttled further down the canal had been inspected could anyone be sure how long it would take to get shipping moving again (see BUSINESS...
...very night that the tough old leader made his submission, Israeli newspapers carried reports that fedayeen guerrillas had struck across the border in a half-dozen raids from Jordan. Whatever the Israelis had won by their preventive war, they did not appear to have won a peace. "Go-it-alone" Israel, in its fear of the Soviet Union, turned once again toward cooperation with the U.N., and above all toward...
...patients, a decrease from the previous year. In 1954-55, Farnsworth's first year, Coon was still the only full-time man, and the Service saw nearly 600 people. Last year, the staff had been expanded to include four full-time psychiatrists, three part-time men, and a half-dozen trainees. Plans for six full-time psychiatrists went awry when one psychiatrist was drafted and another caught polio. This year's staff includes six full-time psychiatrists, two on part-time, and no trainees, although Farnsworth hopes for some later this year...
...explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen and the other half-dozen colleges fronting on High Street. Oxford's city councilors, pleased that Sandys had made the decision they had been ducking for 30 years, also seemed sure to endorse the plan...