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...only by trade but as a money market. In less than two decades, its bustling capital of Beirut has grown into the world's newest financial center, the shrewd regional banker to everybody from wealthy Arab sheiks to huge U.S. oil companies. Last week, in a crisis that shook the country's fiscal structure to the bottom of its vaults, Lebanon was forced to shut its 93 banks for three days...
...Hara sequel to the Frederick standoff was that Shapp decided to go it alone-with $1,400,000 of his own money. In May, he scored a triumphal 50,000-vote primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion...
...Birmingham, as in Atlanta, the police force is the sole governmental agency having regular, direct contact with the very poor. It is contact that now produces a great deal of bitterness. During the second straight night of rioting in Atlanta, a Negro minster sadly shook his head as he watched heavily armed police confront small groups of jeering youths. "The cops just don't seem to realize that these kids aren't afraid of them. They're saying, 'You've done everything else to us. Now go ahead and shoot...
...Fredericton, N.B.), first got to know and love the West when she trained there with the Royal Canadian Air Force (she came out with the rank of flying officer). For an outsider's impressions of the West's wonders, World Editor Edward Hughes sent Chicago Correspondent Ed Shook on a 4,000-mile trek through the booming prairies and mountains...
...bricks, bottles and tear gas. Allen, a progressive, moderate official who is as protective of Negro rights as he is of Atlanta's reputation, mounted a police car to plead for reason. But no one, it appeared, cared to listen much. Amid cries of "White devil!", the rioters shook the mayor off his perch. Undaunted, Allen waded into the mob, spent the next few hours trying to calm the rioters. By the time they finally dispersed, 16 persons had been injured and 73 were under arrest...