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...Hindi rally in Madras denounced the "imposition of Hindi" as "discriminatory tyranny." Other southerners even charged "Hindi imperialism," and a Madras political party planned to spend Republic Day in mourning. Last week in Bengali-speaking West Bengal, trucks bearing license plates in Hindi were ordered off roads on the plea that cops were unable to read them-obviously a deliberate and calculated harassment of Hindistate shipping...
When the shippers' contract came up in October, the longshoremen-naturally-voted to reject it and go out on strike; that strike ended after a court order for 80 days of cooling-off, followed by a 22-day no-strike extension. When longshoremen rejected Gleason's plea to accept the contract and walked out, the union hurriedly launched something called "Operation Facts" in an effort to sell them on the contract before calling another ballot. Union officials obviously felt that most dockworkers did not know what they were rejecting. Gleason went on a radio program to answer questions...
...Star "for the next ten years" went to longtime Editor and Publisher William Rankin Mathews, a crusading newspaperman best known for his 1953 exposé of an Arizona real estate swindle. The arrangement apparently convinced U.S. District Court Judge James Walsh, who denied the Government's plea for an order restraining the sale...
Despite Twentieth Century-Fox's plea that it has millions tied up in the film, it was Greenberg's opinion that "the rights of property and of privacy far outweigh any financial consideration." Fox "should have known that it could not appropriate another's property, created as the result of years of sacrifice and endeavour...
...good bond rating became especially clear last week when two separate Mississippi issues were put on the market. Bankers hardly nibbled at-the first one, a $24.6 million water-supply-district issue bearing a Baa rating. The rating made the real differ ence, Wall Streeters insisted, and not a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for investors to boycott the state. The next day two Mississippi school-improvement issues totaling $8,775,000 were snapped up by two New York syndicates. Moody's (Aa) and Standard & Poor's (A) had decided that...