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Flute & Toy Soldiers. Next, Love battled the railroads, whose rates on coal had risen so high that coal cost 8? a ton more to haul than to mine. Consol built a 108-mile pipeline across Ohio to a Cleveland electric plant, shipped a slurry of coal and water at $1 a ton less than railroad rates. The Eastern railroads got the hint, and last March dropped their coal rates by one-third (TIME, April...
Among Mississippi Negroes, the anger over Evers' murder coiled like a snake. Thirteen ministers began a silent walk, one by one, at widely spaced intervals toward city hall. To Jackson's cops, this was just another protest march-and up came the paddy wagons to haul the marchers off. Next day, the cops rushed a group standing on a porch, clubbed some Negroes, grabbed a white man, throttled him with a billy club, kicked and beat him till blood gushed from his wounds. A day later, Negro youngsters again moved down the street in ones and twos, carrying...
...street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry in London on the off-chance that they might nab the gang in the act of melting their haul into easily portable nuggets...
Unemployment: Price of Automation. It also takes its toll of labor, which is where the real overcapacity in U.S. industry is today. Modernization to economize means replacing men with machines, which cost less than people over the long haul, are more productive and do not take coffee breaks or join labor unions. In the board rooms and at the clubs, today's businessman finds it hard to get his mind-or his conversation-away from topic A: automation. Among automation's side products are 4,000.000 unemployed-5.7% of the labor force. Automated elevators, automated stockroom machinery, automated...
...months before the election, Hassan also entered the race by having his closest confidant, Interior-Agriculture Minister Ahmed Reda Guedira, 40, organize a pro-Hassan party christened the Front for the Defense of Constitutional Institutions. Unsurprisingly, the F.D.C.I. enjoyed the use of government vehicles to haul wondering tribesmen to rallies, plus the organized support of the government's administrative bureaucracy. Flush with campaign cash, F.D.C.I. Leader Guedira (who got some pointers when he witnessed the 1960 U.S. election campaign) passed out thousands of free miniature soccer balls, T-shirts and campaign buttons bearing the royalist party color (yellow). More...