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Bargaining was spurred by an effective Negro boycott and a sharp decline in white patronage following a melee downtown last month in which a Negro youth was badly beaten by white toughs. "Fear of violence was killing us," confessed a merchant. "We realized that if that sort of thing happened again, we were going to be ruined." Under a phased-integration plan, Negroes sought service singly and in small groups during slack hours last week, promised to stay away when rural whites flock to town on Saturdays...
Again this year, TIME offers its unique service to the readers who will be traveling abroad this summer. Subscribers to the U.S. and Canada editions who wish to receive their copies reader, a bazaar merchant who offered a ride in his private...
...miles east of Cape Canaveral one night last week, the 16,100-ton converted merchant ship Observation Island steamed an easterly course in gently rolling seas...
...Canberra joins the largest merchant and passenger fleet in the world, controlled by the 27-company P. & 0. group, with 370 ships (2,342,028 g.r.t). From London, the superliner wall sail through the Suez Canal to Australia, then across the Pacific to Vancouver and San Francisco, finally home via the same route. With her sister ship, the still-building, 40,000-ton Oriana, the Canberra will give P. & O. a commanding lead in Pacific passenger travel. Since it first sailed in these waters in 1954, P. & 0. has undercut the luxury-minded Matson and American President lines by emphasizing...
...many an African country can attest, it is proving a comfortable fit. When Ghana won her freedom from Britain three years ago, Israel's Zim Navigation Co. jumped in with a complete, ready-to-go merchant fleet-the Black Star Line-which saved Ghana so much in foreign exchange that the Nkrumah government recently was able to buy out Zim's 40% share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which...