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Superficially, there is ample evidence of N.A.A.C.P. strength. While most radical Negro organizations count their membership in the hundreds, the N.A.A.C.P. has 450,673 dues payers-an increase of 5% in a year. Its annual income is $3.3 million. Below the surface, however, there are signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization...
...simple explanation for the outbreak of red, white and blue is that free stickers have been made available in quantity. In February, 18,441,368 copies of Reader's Digest included the little paste-on models. They were so popular that the Digest has since distributed 50 million more, with bulk orders from General Motors, the Department of Defense, Gulf Oil and Chemical Bank & Trust Co. of New York. They, in turn, have handed them out free. The stridently patriotic New York Daily News has-sold half' a million. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks...
...Field outside of Fairbanks might have been launching World War II bombing runs. Antique B-25s, the first U.S. planes to raid Tokyo, lumbered down the runway as old Liberator bombers tested their engines for takeoff. The planes were engaged in a different kind of warfare. More than 2.8 million acres of Alaska's timber and tundra-an area more than twice the size of Delaware -have burned this year. The planes' mission: dropping chemicals to slow the fires' advance...
...education is banned in the public schools, 50-odd people committed suicide last year, and the crime rate is higher than Chicago's. A Methodist Church survey shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still...
...company agreed to sell Chile 51% of its mines on next Jan. 1 for about $200 million. The remainder is to be sold after 1972 for a price still to be determined. Anaconda will continue to manage the mines for an annual fee of approximately 1% of sales, or roughly $5 million...