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...overwhelming agreement that American Jewry should involve itself even more in the Negro's struggle. Howard Danzig, executive director of a suburban Detroit synagogue, told the Conservative convention: "Unfortunately, in Detroit as in other cities, the Jewish presence in the predominantly Negro areas is usually that of merchant or landlord. The situation is economically structured for conflict...
...government support, we must compete with flag preferences and subsidized companies-in reality with foreign governments. But we work hard, we watch our expenses and we try to give service second to none," MØller explains. The system works. This year Maersk ships represented half of the Danish merchant fleet's total ton nage of 4,000,000 tons...
Leak at Sea. Given Reagan's rep utation as a political Mr. Clean and Pearson's as a mud merchant who likes to zero in on conservatives, Reagan's vigorous denial should have left him in the clear. The trouble was that Lynn Nofziger, Reagan's communications director and one of his closest subordinates, had himself leaked a similar story to a number of reporters during last month's Governors' Conference aboard the S.S. Independence...
...Clyde came forth the proud ships that once ruled the waves. Until World War II, Great Britain built nearly half of the world's vessels. But for at least a decade the British shipbuilding industry has been badly ailing: last year it launched 1,000,000 tons of merchant ships, less than in 1947, while the Japanese alone produced six times that amount, carving out 47% of the total world production...
...There just aren't any maharajahs left," sighed New York Diamond Merchant Harry Winston, 71. "I'm afraid there isn't a market for enormous diamonds." Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said...