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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county unit system can let one Negro-hating woolhat in a rural county outvote 154 Atlanta moderates. But the South is changing, as nobody knows better than tough-minded Herman Talmadge. He has toned down his racism, noted carefully that the unfair unit system has come perilously close to defeat in four test cases that went to the Supreme Court. Last week Talmadge hinted to Atlanta TV listeners that, rather than risk a new court test, now threatened, he might work out a compromise to let their votes count for more...
...bustling Yangtze River industrial complex of Wuhan. Although party propagandists were still extolling the miracles of production that had been achieved during Red China's "great leap forward" in 1958, the harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce pig iron and steel in homemade blast furnaces-the Communists had created labor shortages in agriculture and industry, had so snarled China's inadequate transportation...
...phosphorus, the Westinghouse researchers developed a new chemical compound that performed thermoelectrically at temperatures between 850° F. and 1,500° F., achieved an estimated 10% efficiency. Compared to the 40% efficiency of the biggest electric generators now in operation, this is not sensational. But future development may close the gap, make possible efficient direct generation of electricity from a coal fire, nuclear reactor or other heat source...
...Walter Shapiro and Morris Speizman thought up Insuratrip, Inc. Motorists seeing an Insuratrip sign at gas stations dial a designated local agent's telephone number, buy coverage at the rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied for permission to operate in 30 more...
...morality tale told by French Novelist Simon is harsh and gloomy. The story of Montés' futile wanderings is told through the recollections of derisive and uncomprehending French villagers, resifted by the man who collected the gossip, and who was the gaunt man's only close acquaintance. Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid...