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Ford denied the charge, said it apparently grew out of a 1954 program of Ford dealers to make sure that wholesale parts were sold only to bona fide customers. But there was no agreement on the prices to customers. For the dealers, Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department...
...importance of these churchmen and the 16 other native bishops is highly rated at the Vatican. Said an official in the Congregation Propaganda Fide last week: "Very few Africans know the name of Portuguese Cardinal de Gouveia of Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, the only cardinal in Africa. But they all know that there are 19 African bishops in Africa. Many of them know them all or most of them by name. Though this may not mean any appreciable increase in converts, it does show that Negroes have great pleasure in knowing that any of their number may reach to bishop...
...Loyal Texan? Though the student president and vice president tried to excuse the university administration by insisting that its motive was merely to protect Barbara, the student assembly met to "reaffirm its belief that all bona fide students should be given an equal opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews...
...Convicted last week of criminal contempt for violating a 1949 antitrust judgment requiring him to sell 39 of his more than 100 movie houses. A Buffalo District Court ruled that instead of a bona fide sale, Schine Enterprises "sold" the theaters to its affiliated companies...
...more important, Virginia's Republican Party, given impetus by the influx of new Alexandria-Arlington voters, has developed into a bona fide political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond...