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...Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This hardly reflected their true voting strength as France's second largest party, but then, the old system of proportional representation had given them seats beyond their strength...
...Liberia's three-term President William V. S. Tubman, hoping to get Liberia's support. But that old pol was not eager to join such vigorous upstarts. He called federation "unrealistic and Utopian." The leaders of the British colony of Nigeria, one of the richest and largest (pop. 35 million) territories on the Guinea coast, make no secret of their irritation at Nkrumah's ambitions. "Nkrumah." Federal Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said recently, "cannot expect the rest of Africa to dance around...
...market started down at the week's opening. While the ticker ran late for more than two hours of the 5½ hours of trading, 1,040 of the 1,287 issues traded suffered losses ranging from 5 to 42 points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues on Jan. 5, 1955). At day's end the market closed off 14.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, and $6.7 billion was wiped from the paper value of stocks on the exchange...
...hampered by outdated machinery. Though the industry invested $4.4 billion in new plants and equipment during the past decade, an estimated 65% of its machinery is still obsolete. Unlike the automobile or steel industry, the textile industry has no real giants to set the pace in modernization. The largest textile company, Burlington Mills (fiscal 1958 sales: $651 million), has only 5% of the industry sales. All the manufacturers are fiercely independent, have never joined in an intelligent drive to promote textile sales. Competition is so cutthroat that wholesale textile and apparel prices are only 93% of 1947-49 level, while...
Bynum, who was voted the best speaker in the competition, and Ferren went undefeated in five preliminary rounds before winning a unanimous decision from Dartmouth in the final round. The debate topic for the tournament, one of the largest in the New England area, was "Resolved: That the future development of nuclear weapons shoull be prohibited by international agreement...