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...eventually co-captains seemed most reasonable, apparently because of some recent friction on the team about certain policies. "Having one captain would have meant alienating part of the team," Horvitz said last night. "The meeting was a really interesting exercise in democracy...
...black owned." But there is a growing black consciousness. "Blacks can't find a better place to live" than Evanston, says Mrs. Jessie Smith, a welfare mother. But she adds: "We don't want to be pushed down any more." Whites complain of black-white student friction in Evanston Township High School, and there is a tinge of race in rising local taxes. Says Alderman Nott: "Every year more services are demanded for the poor and the blacks. It seems there...
Enzymes' End. The detergent makers are quietly moving to allay consumer fears and reduce friction with Government agencies by dropping enzymes. P. & G., which holds an estimated 55% of the market, is expected to start this month by eliminating enzymes from Tide, the nation's bestselling detergent. (The company has no plans for changing ingredients in Biz, its enzyme pre-soak.) Colgate will gradually sift out enzymes from its detergents-Ajax, Punch, Burst, Cold Power-and possibly from Axion, the leading pre-soak. Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach...
...long-time American resident of the area described the traditional Thai policy toward the Muslims. "The Thais think that the way to make the Islamic Malay majority of the south good Thai citizens is to keep repressing them, and of course, it hasn't worked. Another cause for friction is the cultural insensitivity of the Thais, like erecting huge Buddha images in the centers of Muslim villages...
Happy Ending. Secret Ceremony, Director Joseph Losey's baroque story of psychosis and interchange of identity, was given an entirely new introductory scene and thereby converted into a trite tale of domestic friction. And British Director Peter Hall, after a similar experience with Three Into Two Won't Go, is still smarting. The film, he says, "was about the breakup of a marriage so dishonest it needed breaking up. The crisis was provoked by the husband's affair with a young hitchhiker. Universal's new picture is about a probation officer's search...