Steelworkers Near Agreement On Extended Vacation Plan
In Pittsburgh United Steelworkers leaders signaled readiness to approve a new contract described as revolutionary. The plan would grant 13 weeks of vacation every five years to about half the 409,000 union workers, run the pact through mid-1965, and avoid a steel crisis in the election year. A front to extend vacations mirrors the can industry, with cost estimates varying from minimal to 15-20 cents an hour for firms.
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Singers urged to wear glasses to promote spectacles
Hertfordshire Medical Officer Dr. A H Wright urged popular singers and other celebrities to promote eyeglasses to help teenagers overcome aversion to spectacles. The suggestion came in London as a public health outreach.
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Solons Scramble on California School Finances
California lawmakers race to finish school funding for 1963 64 approving bills with wide gaps in totals and a proposed countywide education tax. The Assembly seeks 72.5 million in new funds plus a 27.4 million tax levy funding distribution by need while the Senate backs 15.4 million and omits the tax plan. A conference committee negotiates a compromise as adjournment nears.
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Secret Viet Nam Party Threatens New Campaign
A secret nationalist group calling itself the Free Democratic Party of Viet Nam threatens a terrorist campaign against Diem’s regime and the Viet Cong. Vietnamese and American sources doubt the group has strong organization but warn it could exploit Buddhist tensions. An agent tossed a leafletted grenade near the Indonesian Consulate in Saigon, signed by the Territorial Action Committee.
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Tibetans in Nepal Face Hard Life After Flight
In Katmandu and across Nepal about 5 000 Tibetans flee Red Chinese terror seeking land and work. Many rely on Red Cross aid and selling religious items as money loses value. Since 1959 thousands entered Nepal with 1 800 migrating to India after border clashes. A self sufficient crafts village of 398 Tibetans thrives in Jawlekal, Katmandu.
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