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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa. "The American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient...
...bountiful nation. Under a harvest moon that filled the August sky, the wheat and corn and cotton were ripening, and the U.S. prepared to bring in the biggest crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
...Southerners jumped the party line to vote for the Landrum-Griffin bill, many a Northern liberal felt betrayed, determined to end the era of cooperation. From a spate of conferences of liberal leaders came a three-pronged plan for reprisal. Northerners said they would: 1) fight harder than ever for a strong civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back peanut, tobacco...
...Local 299 for the years prior to 1953, had been destroyed or hidden. Most of the important Teamster officials who testified ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Hoffa himself never took the Fifth, but he displayed what one Senator called "the best forgettery of anyone I have ever known." In a single committee session, Hoffa pleaded lack of memory in times in response to committee questions...
...Soviet readers, Sherlock Holmes is a great fictional hero, and in the past 40-odd years the U.S.S.R.'s Ministry of Culture has grossed at least $3,000,000 in sales of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes. But neither Doyle nor his heirs ever got so much as a ruble out of the Soviet sales. A Moscow city court last year tossed out a $180,000 suit brought by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's only surviving son, as a claim for the pirating of his father's writing. Three judges...