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...Project Argus, after six months of self-censorship by the New York Times, has finally become a matter of public record. That is, faced with obvious evidence that a nationally respected newspaper had known what was going on since weeks before the tests were actually conducted, Assistant Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles has finally admitted that atomic weapons were exploded three hundred miles above the Southern Atlantic...
Every daily and Sunday newspaper in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is in the hands of a monopoly-the Argus South African Newspapers Ltd.-which has no love for visiting Labor politicians. Headlined the Sunday Mail: M.P. TELLS AFRICANS "WE ARE WITH YOU!" There followed the kind of story which stirs up indignant letters from settlers. To make matters worse, Stonehouse invited three Africans to dine with him in the very dining room that Barbara Castle had made memorable. Finally, one midnight, an immigration officer got Stonehouse out of bed to warn him that he could be declared...
...special office in Brussels to guide its European operations into the common market. H. J. Heinz bought a Dutch plant to produce its 57 varieties for Europe, and Du Pont is hunting for plants in Holland and Belgium. Other branches or new factories have been set up by Argus Chemical in Brussels, Consolidated Electrodynamics in Frankfurt, International Harvester in Heidelberg. Coty International, with branches in three European countries, in February formed an 80%-owned subsidiary in West Germany. Says Coty President Philip Cortney: "As manufacturers, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the common market...
...experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week, as Michigan mourned the loss of its able dean, Washington rejoiced. Observed Seattle's weekly Argus: "Seldom has a new university president been so universally acceptable...
...China Hands. Other editors were quick to agree with the Trib. South Dakota's Republican Sioux Falls Argus Leader (circ. 51,575), which has sent staffers to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...