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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...
...talking drums, the spirit of self-rule swept across Africa. The big white-dominated lands of southern Africa would soon look north on a solid girdle of independent black states stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. In some parts of Middle Africa, colonialism was retreating in good order, leaving a promise, or at least hope, of peace in the transition to government by black men. In others, the process was jerky, confused and reluctant...
...Heads. In appearance and content, today's Star closely resembles the paper founded 79 years ago by William Rockhill Nelson, a migrant Indiana contractor. The Star was and is interested in Kansas City, in Missouri, the Prairie States, the Midwest, the U.S., and the world, in just that order. It has two staffers in Washington, one in New York and one in Paris, but it has three in Independence, Mo. and five in Johnson County, Kans. Says Roy Roberts: "We take care of home base first...
These sound practices are as well known abroad as they are in Washington. With a budget in balance, the U.S., says British Economist Graham Hutton. must take normal corrective measures to get its balance of payments in order. Button's prescription is for the U.S. to reduce foreign commitments, get overseas allies to carry more of the load, get internal costs under control. "If you don't stabilize your wage costs," says he, "you will lose export orders, lose gold and get unemployment. It is as simple as that. You have the strongest economy in the world...
...fast that Britain's Institute of Directors lists 25,000 members; a decade ago there were only 400. Also spreading is the U.S. style of low-markup, high-volume operation. Germany's Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckerman has grown into a sort of Teutonic Sears, Roebuck in fewer than ten years. He sells a list of 5,500 items through 22 mail-order stores, 48 special-appliance stores, and by undercutting the competition as much as 25%, tots up sales of $125 million annually. Says Neckerman, expounding a U.S. philosophy: "The consumer is king...