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Clark scorns detached observers who confidently predict gradual acculturation of Negroes into white society. Reacting to this view in a recent panel discussion he waxed quite apocolyptic about American society, but one gets the feeling that Clark is not really as pessimistic as all that...
...Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced the availability of migrant workers to pick ripening crops. Federal economists predict that prices will hold high through August-but then relief will come. Already some downturns are noticeable. Last week wholesale vegetable prices dipped and more cattle began coming to market...
Coffee prices have risen a bit in the past few months, but with a record crop forecast for next season, traders predict that the recovery will be short-lived. Though it can ill afford the expense, the Brazilian government expects to buy up half of this year's crop in an effort to prop prices. Colombia, dependent on coffee for 70% of its exports, has resorted to bartering for goods that it lacks the dollars...
...insists that New's method will simply clog the court with jury trials, while cops who must testify on their days off will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize till Christmas comes, and I'd uphold his rights. I'd back him forever, 1,000%. But the point is, slurring the court as to what...
Some 16 non-nuclear states already have the industrial and technological resources for nuclear weaponry. India, which has good reason to fear China's intentions, could produce an atomic bomb in 18 months. Experts predict that Israel may follow India into the nuclear club. Next may come Japan, which could manufacture nuclear weapons in two years or so, well before the early 1970s, when Red China is expected to have intermediate-range missiles for its warheads. The race could then return to Europe, where the whole process of proliferation started, and continue on to South Africa and South America...