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...weekend when the Campbell's Soup factory held its annual open house, a "once a year day' complete with fried chicken, cold soda, popular music, and softball. But the factory needs every bit of Negro support it can muster. Along with Vita Foods (who distribute Eastern shore pickles and herring up and down the Atlantic seaboard) it is the town's chief source of Negro employment about 90 per cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant, which offers, as its maximum...
...sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially beef, scarce in East Germany. Across the street from the carnival, a lone, scraggly Christmas tree shared its place with the huge model of a Russian...
...Herring & Hot Plates. This year's crop of Americans in Russia comes from campuses as diverse as Berkeley and Emory. Most students are in their early 30s; all speak Russian. Topics of study tend to be esoteric: Russian comment on the French Encyclopedist Diderot, peasant self-government after the emancipation of the serfs, the attitude of the Czarist gentry to peasant reform. The predominant hoariness of the subjects is partly a result of Russian reluctance to open archives on recent events, for in Soviet practice, as one American put it, "What is history today may be non-history tomorrow...
...Castro explained that he was "surprised to learn the extraordinary number of fishing boats that the Soviet Union has on all the seas." The Soviet newspaper Izvestia echoed the line of innocence: "The implementing of this agreement will not only allow Soviet fishermen to increase their catch of herring in the Atlantic, but first of all will also help Cuba to create her own fishing fleet and cadres of trained fishermen...
Many, like Chicago's Bishop Charles W. Brashares, fear that all talk of complete merger is just that-all talk. Says Bra-shares: "Talk of unity can be a red herring to keep us from doing something that we should be doing...