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...Negro undertaker, was elected mayor of Springfield, Ohio (pop. 83,500), by fellow members of the Springfield city commission. Other Negroes have served as mayors of towns and small cities, but Henry is the only Negro now serving in a community of Springfield's size. By custom, the commissioner who receives the greatest popular vote in the nonpartisan popular election is named to the largely honorary post of mayor. Henry, a Republican, was the top vote getter last November after the Springfield Sun editorialized that he "began public service as Springfield's first Negro city commissioner and long...
...mostly Buddhist Ceylon last week, Sunday became just another working day. By act of Parliament, stores and government offices will henceforth close each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
...Pressures. The Johnson Administration stepped up its attack. Part of the Administration's pique, it developed, came from the fact that Bethlehem had not informed the White House in advance of its plans-though no law or custom yet dictates such action by U.S. businessmen. Lacking stockpiles such as it employed last fall to roll back aluminum and copper prices, the Administration now ordered key Government agencies to buy structural steel only from companies that held the price line. On top of that, Pentagon officials hinted that Bethlehem might lose $50 million in contracts to build two ammunition ships...
...custom and courtesy, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sits at the President's table whenever the White House entertains a visiting head of state. Nonetheless, William Fulbright has been a conspicuous absentee from Lyndon Johnson's last three dinners for foreign dignitaries. Though Fulbright returned to the U.S. Dec. 13 from a less-than-triumphant trip Down Under (TIME, Dec. 13), the Arkansas Democrat was not even sent an R.S.V.P. to the White House banquets for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson or West Germany...
...dissenters argued, in the words of Justice Felix Frankfurter, that whatever is said in joint trials "cannot be wiped from the brains of the jurors." And this year the court seemed to lean toward the Frankfurter attitude as it struck down a similar kind of mental gymnastics: the old custom of asking the same jury to determine both the validity of a confession and the confessor's guilt or innocence. Even if the confession proves to have been coerced, how can a jury ignore what it says? In Jackson v. Denno, the court ruled that the judge must determine...