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Despite Europe's growing international sentiment, old animosities remain, from the South Tyrol to Flanders, and might flare up again in time of stress. Economically, the biggest stumbling block so far to a fully integrated European economy is agriculture. Like the U.S., the Common...
...Nidever and his men stumbled toward the scene of the ambush, tracers from automatic rifles laced the darkness, and the finger snap of small-arms fire was punctuated by the sledging blow of mortar explosions. Even under the wavering light of flare shells it was impossible to tell friend from foe. There was a movement, a silhouette running along the road. Was it a Viet Cong guerrilla or a Vietnamese Ranger? Even as the man passed it was impossible to tell...
...less delighted. At week's end, wildcat strikes continued to flare up, and local contracts had been signed in only six of G.M.'s 129 plants. The odds were that many plants would be struck this week at least briefly, but most Detroiters were convinced that the "national economic agreement" between G.M. and the U.A.W. would soon be signed-and that Ford and Chrysler, in turn, would also...
Shapes are dominated by the long-torso look in jackets with some flare in skirts. Tops are generally blousons (gently bloused bodices) and sometimes sleeveless. Waists are lower, skirts still just below the knee. For both daytime and evening, dresses will have matching jackets. In the evening particularly, women will look long, straight, skinny-and covered up, most notably by the long-sleeved, high-necked Ceil Chapman models. But Estévez' startling gowns are deeply plunged front and back. Sarmi features a daytime "obelisk" silhouette, a flare of pleats from a dropped waistline...
What everyone feared was the kind of flare-up that would touch off another bloody slaughter like the March 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police guns killed 67 Africans in two minutes. The government last week banned all public meetings for six weeks and rushed through a new law permitting anyone's arrest and imprisonment for twelve days without bail or trial. Police squads were already rounding up all the suspicious-looking natives they could find, soon had more than 5,000 in their net. At Fordsburg, near Johannesburg, 700 arrested Africans were corralled in outdoor cages. To back...