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...because the rural population is compelled to labor on them; it is developing scientific agriculture by forcing peasant farmers to grow minimum quotas of cotton, and jailing them for failure to deliver. Each Negro city dweller is fingerprinted and must carry a plastic identity card attached to his tax receipt. Yet the Congo is one of the few places in Africa where there is practically no racial tension...
...announcement of the planned expansion followed receipt by the University of a grant from the National Science Foundation for the construction of the new telescope...
...Russian Research Center's prime sources of material is its daily receipt of Communist publications. From these, the Center experts analyze the recent trends and developments in the Communist sphere of influence. A loss of these documents would cause inestimable damage to the Center's research projects...
...United States Post Office confessed last week that for three years now it has confiscated all Russian propaganda to "unauthorized" persons in this country. This legal basis for this action, the Post Office said, is a 1940 ruling by the Attorney general under a Congressional act that limits the receipt of foreign political propaganda to diplomatic or registered agents. Sound as the Post Office's legal position may be, its reason for censorship-that Russian propaganda can be damaging within the United states-is far from convincing...
...CERTIFIED MAIL system will start soon unless the Post Office Department gets serious objections from the public. To supplement current registered mail (minimum charge: 30O, new system will use a special 15? stamp to entitle senders to a receipt proving that the letter was mailed. The post office will file a delivery receipt and give one to the sender for an extra 7?. Letter writers who want insurance will have to pay registered-mail rates as before...