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...companies. Most of the affected companies are reluctant to discuss the subject. Says the general manager of the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Birmingham: "I could tell you a whole lot about it, but I'd just rather not say anything." Says an official of the Kraft Foods Co. (which was criticized for sponsoring a television showing of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones'): "If you start fighting, you just give these idiots a dignity they don't deserve...
...Florida Gulf Life Insurance Co. (which does about $6,000,000 a year in business from Negroes) was threatened by boycott after one of its directors, Sumter Lowry, filed as a race-baiting candidate for governor. Lowry was swiftly dropped from the Gulf directorate, and the threat eased. But C. Blythe Andrews, publisher of a Tampa Negro weekly, says: "If, after the first primary or later, we find General Lowry has been put back on the board, the insurance company will be in for trouble...
...Governor Theodore McKeldin struck a strong blow last week for freer Canada-U.S. trade. Despite heavy pressure from the brewing industry in his state, the Republican governor vetoed a bill passed by both houses of the general assembly (TIME, March 19) to bar the Canadian-owned Carling Brewing Co. Inc. from building a $12,000,000 brewery in Maryland...
Spitting Sparks. Fangio and his co-driver, Eugenic Castellotti, roared steadily on. Behind them, car after car dropped out with mechanical troubles. Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy turned over in his 2.9-liter Maserati, and was rushed to the hospital with a fractured skull...
Supersonic Parachute. To rescue pilots from a supersonic bailout, Radioplane Co., a Northrop subsidiary, has devised a special parachute called the Skysail, packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like...