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ERNEST H. KANNING III Helsinki, Finland...
Citizens of other countries are doing themselves in even more frequently. According to the latest available figures, the U.S. rate was surpassed by Hungary (26.8), Austria (21.7), Czechoslovakia (21.3), Finland (19.2), West Germany (18.5), Denmark (19.1), Sweden (18.5), Switzerland (16.8), Japan (16.1) and France (15.5). England's suicide rate is a little above that of the U.S. Far below them both are the rates of Italy (5.3), Ireland (2.5) and Egypt (0.1), although such figures are often misleading...
...appreciably behind the whites, Negroes have made impressive gains in education, particularly at the college level. Outnumbered by white students 30 to 1, they have raised their numbers in colleges and universities to 225,000-far greater than the total enrollments of the universities of Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland put together. Almost all the Southern universities now have some Negroes. Admissions officers at such universities as California and Stanford give preference to Negroes; like many other schools, Harvard often chooses Negroes over whites with equivalent academic records. So many scholarships are being offered that almost any talented...
...truck rentals, Avis, Inc., makes much of the fact that it is only a hard-trying No. 2. Obviously, No. 1 is the Hertz Corp., with a rental fleet now totaling 125,000 vehicles. Hertz's familiar yellow signs are out in 98 countries, most recently including Finland, New Guinea and the Dominican Republic. Revenues this year will top $300 million...
...year, tax free) is good, his health is fine, and everyone-even the Russians-wants him to stay on. Besides, no one can seem to agree on a successor. In the U.N.'s clubby delegates' lounge last week, more than a dozen names were being mentioned, from Finland's ex-Ambassador to the U.N. Ralph Enckell to Mexico's past President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. In the end, the doubters feel that U Thant, whose current term of office runs to Nov. 3, may only be angling for a draft, and as the price of his acceptance...