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...take over the Seiberling Rubber Co. Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, 59, kept at it, and proclaimed last week that he now owns 51% of the sagging Akron tiremaker's stock. His enterprises already include 25 companies ranging from radio and TV stations to a factory that produces sugar cane harvesting equipment. Lamb, the scrappy son of a commercial fisherman, worked his way through Dartmouth (24) to become a highly successful lawyer whose practice included both corporations and labor unions. At Seiberling, Lamb plans to keep on recently named President Harry Paul Schrank (TIME. Sept. 8), cut production costs...
Often the scandals involve girls from the so-called "colored" groups;-their light skins are a constant source of confusion to sailors and other foreigners in the Cape. When one seaman from Sweden was recently sentenced to eight strokes with a police cane for attempting sexual relations with a non-European, his Swedish captain protested angrily: "Cape Town is full of beautiful colored girls who look exactly like southern Europeans to anyone from Scandinavia...
Neither end of the island has known much peace. Within 30 years after Columbus landed, the native Indians were wiped out by Iberian diseases and the abuses of slavery. The Spaniards imported African slaves and raised sugar cane-thus drawing the covetous attention of France, which in 1665 took over the western end of the island. In 1791 the slaves rose up and began the 13-year slaughter of whites and mulattoes that brought Toussaint L'Ouverture to power and established a Haitian tradition of brutal tyranny. The Dominicans got their independence from the Spanish...
...schools, flew as a navigator in the R.A.F. in World War II, earned de grees at the universities of Manchester and London. Soon after he returned home in 1952 with an English wife, Solarin was in trouble. As principal of a boys' secondary school, he was expected to cane boys for failure to attend church. He refused and quit...
...Portuguese have swept five boisterous, brawling political parties, each hopeful of attracting Indian favors by horror stories of subjugation under the Portuguese. One political leader, J. M. D'Souza of Goa's National Union Party, claims that the Portuguese civil authorities kept a collection of whipping canes, allowed their prisoners to pick the cane with which they were to be beaten. The Portuguese sometimes administered the beatings themselves, he said, but sometimes they were given by native Goans disguised in black masks against the wrath of their victims...