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...Author Dabbs riddles the stock arguments of the segregationists. Is it "instinctive" for whites and Negroes to keep apart? Then why, asks Dabbs, are "Jim Crow" laws necessary at all? Are Negroes sexually laxer than whites? Asks Dabbs: "What classes of Negroes, what classes of whites? . . . There are grounds for believing that the Negroes of the upper middle class are even more middle-class than the whites, more insistent upon American standards." Is the Negro "inferior" by nature? Argues Dabbs: "The present scientific view is that no significant differences have been established . . . The inferior position of the Negro...
...warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
...President Henry Ford II showed stockholders a first-quarter ledger with earnings off 77% to $22.7 million. Chrysler Boss Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert had to face up to a $15.1 million loss-the biggest ever-with sales down 53%. Only General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice has anything to crow about. Chevy has bumped Ford out of the No. 1 spot; G.M.'s overall first-quarter sales were off only 11.6%, its earnings down 29.1% to $185 million; G.M. cars, though down in volume, have captured another 5% of the market to boost the company's share back...
...Question of Heresy. The walkout at Ljubljana marked the worst crisis in relations between Russia and Yugoslavia since Khrushchev's crow-eating visit to Belgrade in 1955 to apologize for Stalin's 1948 expulsion of Yugoslavia from "the camp of Socialism." This time Khrushchev himself was wroth, because the draft program which Tito and his colleagues prepared for their party congress blamed...
...think or the expression of one's thoughts. To many it must appear that Mr. Bartley has set up a straw man which he can easily knock down with the full approbation of the Harvard community, but that his ecclesiastical, pietistic ogre is really nothing more than a scare-crow. Robert W. Haney...