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...three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa's apartheid. Negroes are barred from the Parliament, are excluded from most hotels, must use separate entrances to post offices and banks, are denied entrance to some shops, which serve them through hatches opening onto the sidewalk. By such measures. Southern Rhodesia's 211,000 whites have managed to keep a semblance of racial calm, but they have also alienated the blacks of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from the whole idea of federation...
...standard, the 19-day walkout of the tightly knit, semiskilled Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union was a bitter blow. Most New Yorkers had to make do with radio and TV reports (TIME, Dec. 22, 29), which were often skimpy digests of wire-service stories. The nine papers (daily circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last...
Burning Question. In the five months since the Iraqi coup, the Communists have shown themselves the most tightly knit, best disciplined political outfit to emerge in Iraq's political chaos. They have infiltrated the police. To a lesser extent, they have penetrated the higher echelons of government and the army. At least one ranking official, Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubah, talks like a Communist (he calls Red China the "focus of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in our contemporary world"). The Communists control propaganda, dictating the tone of all Baghdad newspapers. They also control the streets, as last week...
...Boston-bred Tammy came out at the Brookline (Mass.) Country Club. "All those other debs look exactly alike," says she. "And all of them knit." It seems a shame to Tammy that people can no longer live like F. Scott Fitzgerald's flappers, bang, bang, bang, without worrying how it will all come out." The trouble is, she complains, that "people are so wriggly about things. I don't say I was naughty, but I've been in swimming pools that didn't have any water in them...
...shutdown was caused by just 877 men from the independent, closely knit Union of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers. Only 37% of the union showed up to vote on the offer of a $4-a-week raise, which would run pay to $107.82 for a 40-hr. daytime week, plus another boost of $3 a week after a year. The 37% voted down the settlement, 877 to 772, although it had been agreed upon by employers and union negotiators, and the picket lines went up. The papers still managed to get out issues for sale at their buildings. Enterprising newsboys bought...