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...began when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to throw schoolchildren into the Negro battle line. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, arch-segregationist, viciously retaliated with club-swinging cops, police dogs and blasts of water from fire hoses. There were no winners in Birmingham last week...
Forces for Confidence. A second U.S. businessman who has large interests in Latin America added some fascinating statistics to bolster Rockefeller's case. He was John T. Connor, president of Merck & Co., Inc., which operates pharmaceutical plants in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Talking to a New England trade group in Boston, Connor noted that U.S. companies account for one tenth of Latin America's gross national product-and pay one fifth of all taxes, and produce one third of all exports. Yet, he continued, while the Alliance asks for an additional $300 million investment each...
...Connor called for joint government-industry task forces to recommend the legal and administrative measures necessary to restore business confidence in Latin America. Without that, concluded Connor, private enterprise-and the Alliance-is doomed. "Private enterprise requires order and a minimum of certainty. Disorder drives capital out of an area, not because it is timid, but because it is scarce. It is the product of work and savings, and it abhors irresponsibility, wastage and misuse. In the midst of the current chaos in Latin America, the U.S. corporation is about as much at home as a bishop in a poker...
...indoor meet in February, Charles Buchta of Holy Cross won the mile over Crimson aces Ed Hamlin and Ed Meehan, and John O'Connor took the 1000 yard run. Hamlin is presently injured, but Meehan showed great strength winning the mile and two mile events on Saturday. John Ogden and Bill Crain also give promise of providing excellent depth, to make the 880, mile, and two-mile events exciting...
...white and Negro leadership in our city." Said the Rev. Albert S. Foley, a white Jesuit priest who is chairman of Alabama's Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: "These demonstrations are poorly timed and misdirected." Perhaps the worst part was that the fuss made Bull Connor seem indispensable to many Birmingham residents, just at a time when a court is trying to decide when he must leave office as a result of a city election last fall that abolished the three-man city commission...