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...riot was the latest flare-up in a seven-week general strike against Ja-gan's high-handed Communist-oriented regime. In April, Jagan introduced a bill in the legislature that would have empowered the government to "supervise" all union elections. Considering the bill a naked attempt to grab control of the country's labor movement, the powerful Trades Union Council called its 50,000 members out on strike. The bauxite mines and sugar mills closed down; so did the docks, railroads and airports. Hardly a store remained open. In the emergency, British technicians arrived to run essential...
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...vision and creation. There are quirks of design which are nervous and unappealing, of course, and there are people who don't like it -- for example, the classics professor who compared it to two grand pianos copulating. But there is no bolder building at Harvard; no other can grab a man's attention and hold it for so long a time as the Arts Center does. It serves its special purpose as few other buildings can: it excites a new interest in the creative arts...
...year, used-car sales have steadily climbed: 1962's sales of 11.8 million were 13% over 1961, and this year's estimates reckon on another 10% gain. The increase in sales comes mostly from the bottom of the market-from teen-agers now reaching driving age, who grab up the six-and seven-year-old cars. A sale to one of them enables the previous owner to buy a newer used car for himself, so the effects continue right up the line to the newest models. And many families make their second car a used one. Good Until...
...Dutch New Guinea capital of Hollandia one steamy day last week, the blue-and-white United Nations banner was hauled down, and the red-and-white flag of Indonesia stood waving triumphantly alone. Thus did President Sukarno complete his grab of a California-size chunk of new territory to add to Indonesia's sprawling island chain...