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...desegregation, Catholic newspapers in Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia have come out strongly in favor of the Supreme Court decision opening white schools to Negroes. But though papal teachings clearly point to this anti-discrimination position, the Catholic press in most of the deeper South has kept mum...
FLORIDA'S BIGGEST single industrial development, an aircraft factory, will be built by Howard Hughes on 30,000 acres of land near Miami. Hughes is mum on what kind of planes he will build, but the plant will reportedly cost around $50 million, employ...
...Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams fumed: "When Podres became a hero, some politicians said, 'Why isn't a big strong kid like that in the Army?' " Who creates such situations? Williams' unminced answer: "Gutless draft boards, gutless politicians...
Randolph's one-man campaign is a flagrant breach in the conspiracy of courtesy that by long tradition keeps Fleet Street mum about its own foibles. "It is a curious thing," he has written, "that wealthy men who own papers set themselves up to criticize every kind of institution, but they themselves are the one institution which is totally immune from criticism . . . Dog don't eat dog. That is one of the reasons why some of the London press...
...financing his new jet fleet, United's Patterson, like Pan American's President Juan Trippe, kept mum. He said only that he was "studying several alternatives and, quite frankly, we don't yet know which one we'll choose." The speculation around the industry is that insurance companies will help the airlines foot the bill. With United's operating revenues at an alltime record and other airlines doing equally well, commercial aviation is in a position to carry the heavy capital debt for new jets. In a pinch, U.S. airlines could even make a strong...