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...tidy, tree-studded campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute this week, Negroes and whites (including Alabama's governor) will honor a onetime slave who was once traded by his master for a broken-down race horse. Shy, shuffling George Washington Carver, who died in 1943, had spent a lifetime performing scientific miracles. In his tiny laboratory, which he equipped from a rubbish heap on the campus, he had created hundreds of industrial products out of the common stuff-clay, peanuts, potatoes-he found about...
...occasion, Tuskegee will auction off the first issue of the George Washington Carver postage stamp. It was only the second time a Negro's face had appeared on a U.S. stamp, and the first one was also a Tuskegee man: ex-Slave Booker T. Washington, who opened Tuskegee 67 years...
...prewar Germany's largest privately owned coal, iron and steel empire, Friedrich Flick was "the greatest single power behind the Nazi war machine." At Nurnberg last week, haggard, white-haired Friedrich Flick, 64, became the first German businessman convicted by the U.S. war crimes tribunal. For exploiting slave labor, looting industries in occupied countries and collaborating with Himmler's SS, he got seven years...
...Truth: 1) the Russians have a food surplus in their zone, while the U.S., Britain and France have in their zones an annual grain deficit of 6,400,000 tons on their hands; 2) the Russians use "administrative pressure," sometimes called slave labor, to make their Germans work; 3) Western Germany's complex, highly interdependent and heavily bombed industries are harder to revive than the simpler Eastern industries...
...yielded a few points to the Legion; now, he hopes, Amber will meet less resistance in neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...