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...Kicked out of the Soviet Communist Party Presidium and Central Committee, demoted from the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from Moscow. The area is part of the Karaganda administration of Gulag, the vast slave-labor system that Malenkov helped found. In Ust Kamenogorsk, Malenkov will be constantly watched. If his exile follows the pattern of previous top-party banishments (Trotsky was banished to the same province...
...HARTE C. CROW Philadelphia...
...speech, once delighted his audience by conducting a symphony orchestra with a Confederate flag. He is also an able administrator who gets a lot of public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded Georgia politicos as Herman Talmadge and Governor Marvin Griffin. The powerful editorial voice of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 192,520) does not hesitate to speak...
...capital. A Justice Department brief helped persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to outlaw segregation on interstate trains and buses. Brownell invited Southern transportation-company heads to Washington for behind-the-scenes (backroom) conferences about transit segregation in their cities. Result: more than 20 Southern communities have killed Jim Crow without fuss or fanfare...
Coming only a week after 300 white and Negro pastors met at Nashville to discuss segregation in churches (TIME, May 6), the Presbyterians' message further condemned churchmen and churchgoers who worship with Jim Crow, urged ministers to create "a social climate . . . which will encourage a free concourse of men of good will, regardless of their race, status or national origin." Too often, said the Presbyterians, churches "mistake social compatibility for Christian fellowship," and recruit members from only one stratum of society...