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...Sent Congress a reorganization plan for the Export-Import Bank, to abolish a cumbersome board of directors, concentrate management in a single director...
...Force was the first to abolish separate units for Negroes. The Army followed. By 1951, in the U.S., Europe and the Far East, Negro soldiers were scattered through the regular units. Today the Army has 200,000 Negro enlisted men (n% of total strength) and nearly 4,000 officers. The Air Force has 70,000 enlisted men (7%) and nearly 1,000 officers. The Navy, lagging behind the others in giving equality to the Negro, has 34,000 enlisted men (a little less than 3%, half of them still in the mess steward's branch) and 65 officers...
...case, the only way to abolish the filibuster is to demonstrate that it is not a monopoly of anti-civil rights forces but can also be used against pet measures of the Republican majority. Only then will many Republicans who denounce filibusters but vote to weaken the cloture rules (e.g. the Wherry Resolution) unite with the liberals on a cloture provision with teeth. According to the Times the efforts of the opposition have borne fruit as the Senate Rules Committee is thinking of strengthening the rules on rebate...
...Vacuum. Three days after Gottwald's death, no successor had been announced. Moscow, well aware of the dangerous power vacuum, sent a delegation to Prague headed by Marshal Bulganin-ostensibly to attend Gottwald's funeral. Outside the Iron Curtain, there was speculation that Czechoslovakia might abolish the office of President; even so, somebody had to be the country's boss. The chief aspirants were Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky, 69, who is old for the job and perhaps not aggressive enough; Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, 43, who rose to favor by marrying Gottwald's daughter...
Orchids to Barbara Brown for her efforts to abolish authorized snobbery at Alabama's Shades Valley High School [TIME, Feb. 9]. Possibly there is some value in the continuing existence of fraternities and sororities in our colleges and universities, but in secondary schools they are simply abominable . . . The unhappiness that is caused by children's being "left out" is particularly poignant at their...