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...Israelite's keenest fillip comes from Golden's saucy good sense on issues affecting racial and religious minorities. Last summer, while the North Carolina legislature was concocting elaborate legal stratagems to preserve segregation in the public schools, Harry Golden devised a painless formula for desegregation, based on his observation that deep-seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller...
...other 160 M.P.s are appointed by Pibul). The difference was that the 1957 elections were to be honest. This time, said Pibul sternly, there were to be no "fire cards" (faked ballots) and no "parachutists" (people who vote under other people's names). As a final democratic fillip, Pibul announced that he and eight of his ministers would take their first fling at running for office...
There is always an extra fillip for indoor fans, because on the Garden oval the old adage changes, and a good little man is often better than a good big man. So it was last week in the invitation half-mile run at the golden anniversary of the Millrose Games...
Sharman's spectacular accident would have been a standout in any game. In last week's encounter in the Boston Garden, won by the East 109-97, it was a surprise fillip to fine performances by the greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...
...Flip-Top Fillip. The big surge in consumer buying also sent profits soaring. Giant General Electric turned in third-quarter earnings of $47,863,000 v. $45,127,000 a year ago, and reported its most prosperous nine months ever (earnings of $160,727,000 on volume of $2,962,780,-ooo). In the third quarter General Foods' net of $10,593,632 was only fractionally higher than the $10,356,780 earned the same period a year ago, but for its six months ending Sept. 30, the company chalked up its highest-ever sales...