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Across the land this week, the U.S. began registering its young men for a new draft-three, years and 16 days after the end of World War II. The first of 9½ million young men between 18 and 25 stood in patient lines. First to register were the 25-year-olds, who would also be the first to be inducted. Thereafter, eligible men would be called in order of age. Most veterans, married men, men with dependents, public officials, research students, farmers and many others would be deferred. As a starter, the Army asked...
...port of Rotterdam is an index of what has happened to the Dutch economy. Before the war, the port hauled 39 million tons of sea traffic; last year it handled only 12 million. Barge traffic on the Rhine used to be 53 million tons a year...
...costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...
...Southern white," wrote Carter, "is increasingly overcoming all but one of the emotional biases inherited from 250 mutually blighting years of a master & slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in its insistence on segregation . . . But [its] evolution is being immeasurably slowed down by the ferocity, the punitive spirit and the lack of balanced approach which Ray Sprigle's articles in great part exemplify . . . How about giving some recognition to the good things that are happening in the South...