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Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
...drew up much of last week's agenda for reform and argued persuasively for its adoption. Though he has not yet said whether he wants the post, Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 46, has become something of a Roman candle in the usually staid, grey world of Canadian politics-and thus a candidate without having to declare himself...
...rise above a rundown economy, Britain's major industrial companies have moved into a flurry of mergers. Since last summer, consolidations have created Europe's largest steel company, second-largest auto producer and third-largest electrical-equipment manufacturer. Now the trend has spread into the once staid realm of banking. In the largest bank merger in Britain's history, Westminster Bank, the country's fourth largest (deposits: $4.2 billion), has just agreed to join forces with the fifth-largest, National Provincial Bank (deposits: $4.1 billion...
...Contributions Thermometer" outside the museum speedily rose until it shot $45,000 above the required mark, but a number of staid Swiss violently dissented. Some felt that the city's funds would be better used for hospitals and schools, while others simply disliked Staechelin (many a Easier had owned stock in the airline, and many others lost their jobs when it went bankrupt). The anti-Picasso faction drummed up enough signatures on a petition to force a referendum. After a spirited campaign, the city opted last week to buy the Picassos by a vote...
Meanwhile, the company plans to keep up a marketing push that, for all of Mercedes' staid image, has become truly muscular. Deciding that his company ought to do better in the "world's toughest market," Mercedes' Zahn ended a U.S. marketing deal with now-defunct Studebaker-Packard in 1965, built up an independent network of 260 dealers. By carefully watching car-buying tastes in the U.S.-where 85% want automatic transmission (v. only 40% in Germany) and 65% ask for air conditioning (v. less than 1%), Mercedes has increased its American sales by 25% this year...