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...than the unhappy city fathers of Kansas City, Mo., who, during the first three weeks of 1957, saw the number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen called on Kansas City's Police Chief Bernard Brannon to complain that robberies and burglaries in the Negro district were threatening to put them out of business. Suddenly, Chief Brannon thought he saw his chance...
Ever since his visits to Moscow and Peking last fall, Sukarno has been touting the idea of "guided democracy." Just what "guided democracy" is, Sukarno has never made entirely clear. He provided a broad clue fortnight ago, however, when he announced that he was planning to appoint a presidential advisory council which, according to palace aides, would have final say over all acts of Parliament and, presumably, the Cabinet. "In no way," smiled Sukarno, "will this be a dictatorship...
Under steadily mounting pressure from the Kadar government, every Western correspondent in Budapest save Associated Press Veteran Carl Hartman had pulled out of Hungary last week. In the past fortnight, six of the seven remaining reporters for Western wire services and newspapers have either been expelled by the government or voluntarily left Hungary because they were no longer free to gather news. Among the last to leave: Endre Marton, a Hungarian citizen who for ten years has been Budapest correspondent for Associated Press, and his wife, United Press Stringer Ilona Nyilas. The Martons, who were imprisoned in 1955 on trumped...
Chinese Lunch. The chilled cobalt experiment proved extremely difficult, but by last fortnight Dr. Wu reported her results. The electrons were not shooting off equally in both directions. This looked bad for parity, and spirits rose high in the anti-parity camp...
LABOR POLICY FIGHT over whether U.S. should pull out of International Labor Organization is turning in favor of I.L.O. New report by committee of business-endorsed experts, saying I.L.O. can be effective anti-Communist instrument, should make the difference when issue is voted on in next fortnight by National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Some members of the two groups had questioned whether I.L.O. is socialistic, especially since Communist countries also belong...