Meany backs 35-hour week push at AFL CIO meeting
Atlantic City AP George Meany AFL CIO president says merged labor movement will seriously study a national 35 hour work week with same pay. He expects the Executive Council to discuss it in August after endorsing the idea at a previous convention. He contrasts it with Goldberg NAM and managers’ proposals, noting doubts about profits solving unemployment.
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Atlantic City
N.J
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Labor Movement
Meany
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Kennedy
Arthur Goldberg
Dave Dubinsky
ILGWU
Khrushchev Pledges Aid to Laos Neutral Government
Soviet Premier Khrushchev pledged on radio and TV to support a neutral coalition government in Laos as he praised Bulgarian hosts and urged Western restraint. He cited Geneva positions and meetings with Kennedy while criticizing US troop landings in Thailand as hindering Laos settlement. Prince Souvanna Phouma was lauded for pursuing a neutralist regime.
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Khrushchev
Laos
Kennedy
Bulgaria
Kremlin
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
Nam Than
Thailand
Souvanna Phouma
Carpenter's last orbit fuels debate on condition during flight
Amid a global postflight critique Carpenter faced questions on fatigue and confusion after his three orbit Mercury mission. Medical experts differed, some saying he appeared tired, others noting he stayed alert. Carpenter’s return included a welcome home in Cape Canaveral and Boulder Colorado, plus a fond emphasis on the camera he risked and kept.
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B.W.I
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
West Indies
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
Virgil J. Grissom
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Carpenter
Cape Canaveral
Boulder
Colo
Atlantic
Kauai
Hawaii
Capcom
Woomera
Australia
Stanley T. White
Earth
George Ruff
University of Pennsylvania
Ruff
Sgt
Ray E. McClure
Mt. Sterling
Boy Pleads Guilty To Pilfering Church Box
Philip E. Toussaint a 17 year old of 33 Crescent street Biddeford pleaded guilty in Saco Municipal court to petty larceny from Notre Dame de Lourdes church in Saco. Associate Judge William F. Wilson Jr sentenced him to an indefinite term at the Men's Reformatory at South Windham after arrest following a downtown Saco chase. Toussaint had $7.41 when arrested and police said entrance to the church was gained about 12:40 a m through an unlocked rear window.
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Philip E. Toussaint
Crescent Street
Biddeford
South Windham
William F. Wilson, Jr
Saco
Toussaint
Notre Dame de Lourdes
George Nutter
Nutter
North Saco
Alberick Martin
James Berry
Berry
Saco Steel Company
Water Street
Oscar Tardif
Stock Market Skids Amid Fearful Selloff In 1962 Week
New York traders faced emotional selling as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38.82 to 611.88, the AP index dropped 16.30 to 224.60, and overall volume surged to 22.99 million shares. Analysts cited steel price relief, SEC scrutiny, CME competition fears, and sinking profit margins, but fear dominated as margin calls and declines spread across blue chips and growth stocks including International Business Machines Brunswick Magnavox Ford Zenith Xerox.
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Dow Jones
Dow
Associated Press
New York Stock Exchange
Kennedy
SEC
Ford
Brunswick
Magnavox
Zenith
Zerox
Moslems in Casbah Prepare for Worst Turmoil
In Algiers Casbah Moslems brace after European terrorism as makeshift hospitals treat about 20 wounded daily. FLN leaders call for discipline and restraint while barbed wire seals the Casbah. European flight and overcrowding push population beyond 150,000. food is scarce and elderly women risk scavenging in European areas.
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Algiers
Cashbah
Casbah
el Kettar
Methodist Pastors Shelve Health Insurance Plan
South Portland AP Ministers at the Maine Methodist conference postponed for a year the consideration of a group health insurance plan tying ministers payroll share to church contributions via the conference. Retirement of six ministers announced. Also noted were comments by Dr. S Paul Schilling of Boston University on US and Soviet nuclear testing.
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Maine
Oliver W. Bell
Bath
Henry O. Meyert
Cape
Porpoise
James W. Barr
South Eliot
Manfred A. Carter
Guilford
Alfred Standish
Newfield
Boston
United States
Soviet Russia
S. Paul Schilling
Russia
Boston University
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Catskill
N.Y
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Jean Laurac
le Petit Journal
Montreal
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Ottawa Citizen
Donald Jones
Beach Town
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Montreal Star
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