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...Teachers, bargaining agent for New York City's 43,000 teachers, is currently threatening to strike not only for more pay but also for various kinds of better schooling. The odds are 50-50 that New York's 1,000,000 pupils are about to enjoy the longest summer vacation of their lives. The Utah Education Association, representing 98% of Utah public school teachers, threatened all summer to "withhold services" unless the state legislature boosted all school spending. Last week the teachers gave in, accepting a $700 raise that had been offered all along, but they left...
Later, surgeons removed the accountant's own diseased kidneys. He still has to take four medicines daily and he has regular blood-cell transfusions. But 16 months after the transplant he is working full time. The Brigham doctors draw no conclusions. They simply note that this is the longest survival for a kidney transplanted from a dead donor to an unrelated patient...
...song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
...76th year, a full decade after most businessmen retire, Hilton is busy spotting the world with hotels wherever the U.S. tourist and businessman alight, girding the globe with new links in the longest hotel chain ever made. Already this year, Hilton has opened new hotels in Teheran, London, Athens, Rotterdam, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Portland, Ore. Under construction are two new Hiltons in Paris, one at Montreal airport, and others in Brussels, Honolulu, Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Rabat, Mayagüez, Tunis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Cura...
...sings better out in Hollywood? 21 Golden Hits (Paul Anka; RCA-Victor) celebrates Anka's 21st birthday in the groovy style that he has become accustomed to in his six years as a millionaire. All are songs he wrote himself (Diana, Lonely Boy, Summer's Gone, The Longest Day), and he sings them-as if he still means every word...