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...third and second base spots and trading for Vice Power, the league's fine stall-round first baseman. If Griffith seems to have slipped in trading Don Lee to Los Angeles for Jim Donahue (now in the minor leagues) well, the younger Donahue may still make it bigger than Lee in the future...
Choice Between Evils. But in bigger cities, and in the border areas, the Negroes have made considerable progress, and already are a political force to be taken into account. In Texas-where Negro registration has increased from 33,000 to 300,000 in 20 years-the race issue is dead in statewide elections, and in this onetime Confederate state both candidates for governor this fall are taking a moderate line on civil rights. In Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, Ga., tightly organized Negro voters' leagues form a powerful coalition with moderate "uptown whites...
TIME here surveys 24 independent new states and three near-independent territories below the Sahara-where statistics hardly exist. Nonetheless, what data can be gathered illustrate a battle far bigger than the fight for independence: a battle to establish a minimum of order, education and material wellbeing...
Cans have taken 37% of the $430 million-a-year beer container market away from bottles, and now they are looming bigger in the soft-drink container business. Fortnight ago, Continental Can Co. reported that sales of its soft-drink cans were running 40% ahead of last year. Canned soft drinks were almost unknown nine years ago; they are expected to account for about 5% (or 1.8 billion cans) of the market this year. By 1970, predicts Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s commercial research department, cans will have 15.2% of the business...
...TEXACO'S profits rose 14.3% above last year to 82^ a share, to give the oil company record first-half earnings of $1.73 a share; STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA also profited from bigger crude oil and natural gas sales to boost its first-half earnings 5%, to $2.25 a share...