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Beating drums and gongs and waving their talismanic little red books of Mao, the Red Guards were at it again last week, surging in frenzied rhythm through the streets of Peking, Shanghai, Nanking and dozens of lesser cities...
...Lesser labor disputes flared across the nation. Contracts covering 75,000 rubber workers at Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal run out April 20. Although Washington observers were optimistic that a strike would be avoided, an industry leader has already hinted that rubber prices are likely to go up as a result of expected increased labor costs of as much as 6%. More than 12,000 members of the Communications Workers of America have voted strike authorization to their negotiators with Western Electric Co., Inc., where their contract expired March 25. Talks have been held under day-to-day extensions...
...permissive environment: The family has become more permissive and so has the church. The college no longer stands so much in loco parentis. The law gives wider latitude for freedom of action. All in all, there is a greater degree of autonomy, a lesser scope for authority. The student stands more on his own and relies more on his peer group...
Death Verdict? To greater or lesser extent, all of these factors weighed in the Speck voir dire. For his part, State's Attorney William Martin, 30, took a cool approach. "Where the crime speaks for itself," he said, "it is not for us to seek the sympathy of the jurors." Though he was searching for the relatives of policemen, nurses and young girls, Martin mainly focused on reactions to the most important question: "Do you have any conscientious or religious objections to the death penalty...
...France, it is generally agreed that growth will continue, if at a lesser rate than the spectacular 25.5% of 1966. There is one catch: a continued bad domestic-sales record may spur further exports by Germany and even Great Britain, which has sagged sadly in this area. This would, of course, slice into France's foreign market that last year accounted for nearly 40% of her sales...