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Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
...annual General Assembly in Portland recently, the tiny (12,500 members), fundamentalist Orthodox Presbyterian Church formally extended a hand of welcome to any who would like to leave the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. The same gesture was made by the equally small Bible Presbyterian Church, headed by Radio Preacher Carl Mclntire. Both churches clearly hope to swell their ranks with conservative Presbyterians dismayed by the "Confession of 1967," approved in principle at the United Presbyterian General Assembly last May (TIME, June...
Holding the Line. A full month remains to settle the one crucial area of difference: money. The union demands a 17.90 hourly (or 4%) annual increase in wages and benefits, comparable to packages granted lately in the automobile, aluminum and can industries. Management, which contends that its annual productivity increase in the past six years has been only 2%, insists that it cannot grant more than a 2% boost without raising prices. It holds the line at 90 an hour...
...asked the boss for a raise and wound up being asked to take a cut. They recently petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 50?-per-ticket increase in first-class fares, hoping that the raise would make up for some of the $17 million in annual excess-baggage charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles...
...then added a master's in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ('39). Squeezing the most out of his time, he sleeps about one night a week on planes while traveling 300,000 miles a year. Even office parties do double duty: before the annual banquet for his 50-man staff and their wives-at a Tabler-designed hotel-there is always a tour from boilers to bedrooms, and a Tabler lecture on hotel techniques...