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Stalking at Night. In the nights that followed, shotgun-toting whites and Negroes stalked each other. White youths in a pickup truck fired into a Negro home; a Negro blasted a carload of whites with a shotgun, hitting one man in both legs; rifle shots from the darkness wounded a Negro riding...
Though many of the struggling "mom and pop" groceries have gone under, the surviving independent grocers have become bigger and smarter. They have banded into groups, such as the mid-Atlantic region's Foodland Stores and Texas' Minimax. These buy in carload lots, rent computers to watch inventories, and hire experts to keep their books, plan their ads, remodel their stores. The "voluntary chains" increased their share of U.S. food sales from 29% in 1947 to 49% last year...
...Chesapeake & Ohio that controls the B. & O., has helped to revive the nation's oldest railroad. Since Cornell-trained ('30) Lawyer Langdon became chief in 1961, the B. & O. has chopped coal-haul rates and renovated tunnels to accommodate piggybacks, has begun to eliminate unprofitable less-than-carload business. Last week Langdon also reported that his railroad, which lost $31 million in 1961, bounced back to earn $5,500,000 last year on revenues of $372 million, and this year should double those earnings...
...than in 1951, and prices of washers have dropped 10% in the same period. The appliance dealers' association estimates that profits will increase less than 1% this year and that 5% of the small dealers will fold. Many of the remaining independents are banding together to buy in carload lots so that they can offer loss leaders as the chains...
...chill rain whipped Rue Desfontaines at noon one day last week as a carload of plainclothes police pulled up at No. 25. The six-story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish...