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In a career studded with firsts-she was the first Negro principal to sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits...
Fast-growing (pop. 202,000) Valencia owes its boom to a wide-awake municipal council that is luring industry by offering good facilities, a big labor pool, tax exemptions and political peace. Marking off 2,000 acres of bushland near the Caracas superhighway in 1959, the council first swung a...
Then last year some flaws appeared in the image. City Controller Alexander Hemphill uncovered a batch of municipal misdemeanors, described by Dilworth (who nonetheless fired all the city employees involved) as "penny-ante stuff." Dilworth then took off for a round-the-world trip. By the time he came back...
*No. While visiting Berlin in 1934 as an official of the National Municipal League, Howard Jones pointedly refrained from saluting the Nazi swastika. Threatened by a fist-shaking Storm Trooper, he protested angrily to Adolf Hitler's German government, promptly received a full apology.
Tokyo's Yawata Iron & Steel Co. offered to purchase 5,000,000 tons of South African pig iron over a ten-year period. With such a huge deal in the works. South Africa could hardly afford to insult the visiting Japanese trade delegations that now would regularly visit the...