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Major recommendations were also made regarding government policy in hiring and training these top executives. The investigators found that 48 per cent of those questioned who had previously worked for the government served for less than one year, largely because the government hired many for only a six-month period...
Backed by Governor Faubus, the White Citizens' Council tried hard to bring the Gazette to heel with a boycott. Last week Publisher Patterson acknowledged that the boycott had reduced daily circulation 10.6% to 88,068 and Sunday circulation 9.7% to 97,449 for the six-month period ending in March. Over the same period, Little Rock's Arkansas Democrat, which carefully avoided taking a stand on Faubus' defiance of federal authorities, gained more than 6,000 readers for both its daily and Sunday editions, now trails the Gazette on weekdays by 2,800 and leads...
...would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...
...sudden rise in the popularity of small foreign cars, whose chromeless lines are a far cry from Detroit's behemoths. But retail sales also zipped along at supermarket speed. Jaguar sold its entire yearly production of 2,100 of its new XK 150 ($5,000) and the six-month production of its Mark VIII sedan, decided on the spot that it will be able to sell 12,000 cars in the U.S. next year instead of the projected 7,500. West Germany's Autounion sold 762 cars, and France's Simca took orders for 26 cars...
...debaters from Mercer University, Macon, Ga. last week began a six-month invasion of northern colleges and universities to defend the proposition: Resolved, That racial segregation in the South should be maintained. Seniors Beverley Bates and L. Martelle Layfield faced debaters from Princeton's American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the U.S.'s oldest collegiate debating group, amiably insisted beforehand that they were not making the tour as "Confederate knights in shining armor," but as private citizens interested in finding "a free arena of discussion where reasonable people can achieve better understanding." Seemingly at odds with the proposition they were...