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Sheltered, fed and supplied by villagers in the interior, Communist guerrillas spread over Pahang like a plague of locusts, giving the Sultan's demesne a reputation as the "blackest" state in Malaya (where black or white signifies terrorist or safe areas). British security forces and government propagandists were getting nowhere; the Sultan decided to take matters into his own hands...
...Cost. When all was over, the session added up to the blackest 5½ hours the New York Stock Exchange had seen since Oct. 29, 1929. All told, 7,720,000 shares, more than double the usual number, had been traded. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials plummeted 31.89 points, rails 11.15 points, utilities 2.46 points; in industrials the nose dive just about matched the drop that occurred when the market first collapsed in 1929. Overall, the composite average of 65 stocks showed a drop of 10.76 points to 162.75. Half the entire 1955 gain had been wiped...
...Francisco Goya died of the infection that deafened him at 47, he would be remembered only as a Spanish court painter with a knack for candid likenesses. But the tortuous, stone-silent path he entered in middle age led steeply upward, and he clambered gloomily to greatness. The blackest and harshest of the old masters, Goya made bitterness a virtue and found pessimism a fountain of youth. A big traveling show of Goya drawings, on display this week in San Francisco, proves once again how great his final achievement...
Full of foreboding, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther* stepped before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in Washington last week to talk about the future. As far as Reuther could see, the horizon was cloudy-and the blackest clouds of all bore the label "automation." Citing the example of an automatic engine-block assembly line on which 41 workers now do a job that once required 117, Reuther foresaw the day when "entire plants, offices or departments in much of industry and commerce will be operated by electronic control mechanisms." The Administration, he cried, had better do something now about...
Shakespeare, when his blackest bile was running, could hardly match this image as a metaphor for existence-"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." With this image, with the back of his hand for any sense of purpose or significance in human life and in the world around it, Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Raven, Jenny Lamour) introduces a picture that is surely one of the most evil ever made, and yet, curiously, one that uses the approaches of religion. The Wages of Fear seeks out its epiphanies at the cold...