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...Fortnight after its first victory in Nashville, Tenn.. the Negro sit-in movement for equality at Southern lunch counters won its second victory last week, when five downtown variety stores in Winston-Salem, N.C. opened their counters to Negroes without discrimination. Watching to see what happened were city detectives from Greensboro, N.C., where Negro college students staged the original sit-in demonstration back in early February. What the detectives saw was encouraging: whites and Negroes sat side by side without disorder, insults or even stares, as if things had never been any different...
Tyranny of Sorts. The shouting was aimed at the new U.S. security treaty that Premier Nobusuke Kishi had rammed through Parliament fortnight ago. To Occidental observers, the reasoning behind the uproar seemed inscrutably Oriental. The new pact actually reduced U.S. control over its leased military bases. Unlike the treaty it replaced, it ran for only ten years, after which it could be abrogated by either side. But much is irrational in Japan's politics these days. At war's end, the U.S. forced the Emperor to grant unprecedented political freedom. Ever since, the Japanese have reveled...
Under cover of a passion for justice, many South Koreans are busier working off old grudges and personal vendettas than in reconstructing their disrupted state. Fortnight ago a cabal of personal enemies and ambitious junior officers forced the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Song Yo Chan, the man primarily responsible for pressuring ex-President Syngman Rhee out of office without a nationwide blood bath. This week the vengeance-seekers caught up with Rhee himself...
...threw the switch on Lisboa's joy train is a Rio reporter named Fidelis Amaral Netto. Running himself for a house seat in next October's elec tions, Amaral Netto a fortnight ago confronted the speaker and his cronies during a TV debate. Amaral Netto pointed out that salaries for civil servants attached to the 63-member federal senate are $1,000.-000 a year, and those of the 326-member federal chamber of deputies are $1,890,-000. How, he asked, could these expenses of Rio's 50-aldermen house...
...world's land snakes, the Australian tiger snake is rated as about the most deadly. It needs to inject only 2 mg. of venom to kill a man, whereas the notorious hooded cobra must inject about 20 mg., and a big rattlesnake as much as 140 mg. Fortnight ago, Kenneth Earnest, 22, who helps run his family's reptile farm in Buena Park, 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a run-in with a greenish-grey and black-banded tiger snake. He almost lost...