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Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...
George Wallace has been the only candidate able to pick up any states in the past month's campaigning-even though he has dropped somewhat in at least one poll. In Arkansas he has taken the lead from Humphrey, whose liberalism is anathema to rural Arkies, and might even manage to carry urban Pulaski County (Little Rock). South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond has been stumping the South for Nixon but strangely neglecting South Carolina. Wallace, as a result, has edged ahead. Thurmond's own supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator...
...legislature's directive to set up pilot projects for decentralized control of the public schools. Lindsay collided head-on with the autocratic school system, and especially with its dug-in unions of teachers, principals, supervisors and custodians. One measure of their power is the fact that in the past five years, only a handful of New York City's 60,000 teachers have been fired for cause. By last week all of them were at war with the mayor (see EDUCATION...
...floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took cover in corrals. There were pigs in one pen, people in the next." The youths had planned to meet at 7 a.m., elect new officers and melt away, but neighboring peasants tipped off police. Breezing past a warning shot fired by a student sentinel, São Paulo cops rounded up all 739, carted them off in trucks and Jeeps and slapped them into jail. After questioning, most of the students were released and sent back home, but activist leaders of the movement were detained...
...political groups of the center and non-Communist left. Diekerhof himself is a mem ber of the Dutch Labor Party executive, and active in the New Left. He and other Aktie leaders have organized street theaters, panels and teach-ins in hired halls all over The Netherlands during the past few weeks. Last week in Driebergen, near Utrecht, one listener wondered why Aktie was not making similar efforts with the Soviet Union. Diekerhof answered: "We do not know how to influence the Kremlin. We have always been against what goes on there, and Czechoslovakia shows how right...