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...fringe area, the union battle cry is "30 and out," echoing a proposal that workers be allowed to retire after 30 years' service regardless of age, on monthly pensions of $500 or more. Other demands include a company-paid family dental-care program, company-paid auto insurance, year-end cash bonuses for workers, and even a vague call for an end to pollution...
...ideological equipment was a militant 19th century Marxism. Foreign policy? The Socialists demanded "unarmed neutrality" so loudly that voters identified the party with the antiwar students who tore up Tokyo last October. Domestic policy? The Socialists called for nationalization of industry -just as employers were handing out the biggest year-end bonuses in Japan's history...
...radical challenge surfaced dramatically last year at the Modern Language Association meeting in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 10, 1969). Amid scuffles, the radicals rammed through a resolution condemning the Viet Nam War and even succeeded in electing one of their own as the M.L.A.'s second vice president: Louis Kampf, professor of literature at M.I.T. and a founder of the radical New University Conference and close colleague of Antiwar Critic Noam Chomsky. Last week, during the traditional year-end round of academic conventions, radicals pressed the attack in several disciplines. Items...
...first nominations arrive in October, and by mid-December a steady stream of letters come in from readers enjoying a regular year-end pastime offering suggestions for TIME'S Man of the Year. This year the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, fulfilling the promise of 1968's Men of the Year, ranked high. So did Ralph Nader, Spiro T. Agnew and the American G.I. Golda Meir, F. Lee Bailey, Wernher Von Braun and Arlo Guthrie all had their supporters...
This week's magazine presents another long-standing year-end feature: TIME'S All-America selection of the outstanding college football players for 1969. Many publications dealing with sport have an All-America roster, but we like to believe that TIME'S is the most authoritative. Instead of totting up the votes of sportswriters, coaches or other spectator sportsmen, TIME'S team is chosen by the men who must back their choices with cash: the professional scouts. How have they done over the years? Superlatively, for the most part. Last year the scouts chose University...