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...Since local jails were too small to hold them, hundreds of Negroes were shipped aboard chartered Trailways buses to Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary, a notorious bastille 204 miles away. There, demonstrators charged, they were forced to strip to their underwear and sleep without blankets, many on cold cement floors. Prisoners also protested that they were made to take laxatives but for two days were given no toilet paper. Their plaints, filtering back to Natchez, fanned Negro resentment-and by now the Klan was mobilizing its own forces. One night, enraged Negroes and snarling whites surged menacingly toward each...
...kind between an Eastern and a Western European country, but is further distinguished by the fact that it will have its headquarters in West Germany. Primarily a trading company, it will handle all Polish exports and imports of heavy machinery, thus expanding IBAG'S Eastern market for cranes, cement mixers and stone-crushing machines while providing Poland with a much more effective Western sales outlet than its bureaucratic state export agency could ever hope to become...
...IBAG (1964 sales: $9,500,000) beat some giants to the punch. Since early this year, Krupp has been trying to develop several direct joint enterprises with Poland, but so far has been more successful in setting up triangular trade agreements. A Polish contractor is building a Krupp-designed cement factory in Yugoslavia, and shipyards in Bulgaria are making fishing vessels for Ethiopia under subcontracts from Krupp; the company has offered similar triangular deals to the U.S.S.R. Essen's Rheinstahl has agreed to supply Hungary with steel and to engage later in joint manufacture of machine tools, radiators, boilers...
...Saturday's football game, the stands witnessed a particularly tasteless sideline display. Crude lampaoning of the Catholic Church does little to cement relations with the Irish and Italian communities that surround the University...
...Some phantasmagoric novel! Only a fictional pressagent's verbal weapons could describe it: "Marguerite Young's new novel is so big that if its air conditioning is turned off, clouds form inside. Its electrical system contains 11,425 miles of copper wire. None of it connected. The cement that went into its construction could build Grand Coulee Dam, with enough left over to fill a wash tub into which might be placed the feet of the Scribner's editor who okayed it for publication...