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...nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...
...global scramble for strategic materials, Russia last week grabbed with both hands. In Singapore, the Soviets bought rubber by the shipload, sent prices bouncing up almost 6?a pound in one day to 52.5? a pound. As a result, rubber also rocketed in New York-to 54.3? a pound, a 22-year record. New York's Commodity Exchange governors, fearing that the futures market was soaring out of control (a speculator who put up $800 to buy rubber futures in January could have had a $7,500 profit last week), ordered speculative futures margins doubled; buyers...
...first shipload of U.S. arms to reach Italy under the U.S. Military Assistance Program approached its wharf last week, Naples was prepared for anything. But when the Exilona finally tied up at the pier, nothing happened. Communist organizers called on all Italian workers to strike forthwith. Six trolleycar motormen, five bus drivers, some armament workers and a spaghetti factory obeyed. Two of the bus drivers later changed their minds...
...Broadway's smash hit picturing a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war is: 1. Red Peppers. 2. Make Mine Manhattan. 3. Shore Leave. 4. Angel in the Lights. 5. Mister Roberts...
Laid on a Pacific cargo ship late in the war and far from the fighting, Mr. Roberts pictures a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war. It suggests that boredom can be as tough on the nerves as bombardment. The only war the crew of the AK 601 can fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim...