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...these enforced suburbanites. They must ride to work each day on crowded, filthy "native trains" whose hard plank seats are always jammed with sweating Africans, standing, squatting, sitting on laps or even riding the couplings between the decrepit cars. In these crowded human cattle cars, violence is quick to flare. Flashily dressed native gangsters, known as Tsotsis, wait to pounce upon the unwary worker, particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack...
...Edsel on display this week. The first new "Big Three" car since Ford brought out the Mercury in 1938 is a recognizable Ford product without radical jetlike fins or bomb-shaped bumpers. Like Ford and Mercury, it presents a squarish appearance with a flat rear deck, horizontal taillights that flare up and out, an oval, uncluttered grille reminiscent of the elegant Cord of the '30s. Under its hood is a burly engine turning up 303 h.p. in the less expensive models, 345 h.p. in the top-priced line. Inside is the ultimate in pushbutton driving-a drive selector with...
SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
...diagnosis. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk offered the second explanation. "This is a disease of civilization." he said. "As countries adopt higher standards of public hygiene and sanitation, and infant mortality decreases, you get a greater number of children with no natural immunity against the disease." This probably explained recent polio flare-ups in parts of southern Europe and among upper-crust populations in South America. Soviet delegates reported that this was the explanation for their country's polio problem, acute only since 1955, and increasing in severity. Red China has been noting cases since...
Last week was one of those rare times when both halves of Europe were simultaneously lit by the flare of significant events, and the weaknesses of the East and the strengths of the West could be better seen. Moscow got the big headlines: Nikita Khrushchev's grab for power, his overturning of Soviet Russia's most durable Politburocrats, his emergence in the top spot, was dramatic evidence that collective dictatorships in time become one-man dictatorships...