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...Negro civil rights workers, Cicero, Ill. (pop. 70,000), is a symbol of Northern discrimination-a Selma without the Southern drawl. The last time a Negro tried to live in Cicero, in 1951, city police harassed him, then did little to quell three days of rioting as mobs burned his possessions and wrecked his apartment. Some 3,000 National Guardsmen finally restored order but, from that day to this, no Negro has openly sought residence in the town that gave Al Capone haven, a suburb of Chicago that is largely populated by blue-collar workers of East European extraction...
...Encounter Editor Melvin J. Lasky came this word: "Never in the history of public relations has there been a campaign in such incredibly bad taste. I have already called the attention of the German ambassador to the horrified amazement that your company should go in for something so ill-calculated to win good will...
...total of 65,440,000 gal. Distillers Co. Ltd. also made marked gains with its gins and vodkas, especially in the U.S., where it already operates a distillery and bottling plant in Linden, N.J., plans to open a new one next month in Plainfield, Ill...
Died. General Tadeusz Komorowski, 71, Polish resistance hero in World War II, best remembered as "General Bor," a tall, wiry cavalry officer who went underground in 1939, led the tragic Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944, when 40,000 ill-equipped members of the Polish resistance fought a doomed battle against four German divisions for 63 days while Russian troops halted their advance to watch the slaughter from only ten miles away, after which Bor charged Russia with cruel betrayal, claiming the Poles had been promised aid if they rose; of a heart attack; in Woughton on the Green...
Taking It Easy. Typical of ministers who have decided to express their convictions more cautiously is the Rev. Noah Inbody of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Skokie, Ill. A Selma marcher, he returned home full of zeal for open housing, lost several wealthy parishioners as a result of strong sermons on the subject, faced the threat of losing touch completely with his middle-class suburban congregation. Although his opinions have not changed, Inbody no longer takes an active part in civil rights work. "I've had to take it easy," he admits. "I don't go out and pound...