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...workaday achievements, the I.L.O. has been successful. It won the NObel Peace Prize on its 50th anniversary in 1969 for its wide-ranging efforts to upgrade the lot of the world's workers. It is involved in vocational training in India and Morocco, management development in Pakistan and Tanzania; it provides technical assistance in building work forces for developing nations that lack economic expertise. The I.L.O. has made 152 recommendations to set international labor standards for working conditions, hours and vacations, and has begun moving on such newer issues as occupational disease and sex discrimination in jobs. I.L.O. specialists helped...
...reportedly is now working on projects for French television. But this hodgepodge of video images may also be intended to symbolize the various forms of fragmentation that have dashed Godard's hopes for revolution--demoralizing factionalism within the French Far Left, the retreat of '60s youth into isolated, workaday middle-class existences, the proliferation of complexly interwoven international issues that no longer allow for neat divisions into "right" and "wrong," into "liberators" and "oppressors." Godard is no longer even sure that his films do, or can, serve a political function...
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, meanwhile, was putting the final touches on what the Israelis are calling a "peace treaty" to discuss in Washington. The proposal is made up of 30 sections detailing in legal form a declaration of peace, exchange of ambassadors, resumption of trade relations and other workaday items. But there is no map showing what Israel's final borders might be and certainly nothing to indicate that Jerusalem will relent on its opposition to any negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Despite Israeli insistence that "everything is negotiable," a high-ranking official conceded that "there...
Thinking Man's CB Reading a book without using hands or eyes is made pleasantly possible by a Los Angeles company called Books on Tape. An immediate hit with housewives and commuters who drive to work-not to mention armchair listeners suffering from workaday eye-strain-the audio tomes are cassettes that are rented by mail at prices ranging from $6.50 to $7.50 plus $1.75 mailing charge for a 30-day period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary...
John Nepomucene Neumann,* who on June 19 becomes America's third Roman Catholic saint, was no ecclesiastical superstar, but a priest of simple piety and workaday faithfulness. So much so that Vatican officials who screen candidates for sainthood nearly overlooked him. They shelved his case in 1912 because of serious doubt whether he had displayed the necessary "heroic virtue...