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...desegregation battle (see above) has given Negro publications a shot in the arm. But the long-term circulation trend has been going against them as Negroes win a surer place in U.S. society and switch to general-interest papers and magazines (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, taking the hint, Chicago's 50-year-old weekly Defender (circ. 50,000) turned itself into a daily tabloid with a strong typographical resemblance to New York's Daily News and contents designed to compete with other Chicago dailies. The only Negro daily in the North, and the second...
Long before President Eisenhower's attack, heart disease became a major American worry. Other diseases were being triumphantly conquered with wonder drugs and new surgical techniques, but one result of keeping people alive longer, it seemed, was to make all the surer that they would eventually have heart attacks. Heart-and-artery disease was pinpointed as the nation's No. 1 killer-with ample statistical reason. It now accounts for 800,000 deaths a year, half the U.S. total...
While the demand for Old Masters continues, nothing is surer than the shrinking of the supply-especially since the best paintings are continually being frozen into permanent public and private collections. The result, as the London Economist recently cautioned would-be investors: "Too much money has been chasing too few good pictures...
...committee ("to study the creation of a common organization .. .") Perhaps too much had been sought too soon, sighed some good Europeans: perhaps this cluster of nations which had so often been a cockpit of war must first learn to work together as nations. Perhaps the slower way was the surer way . . . But it was not said with much enthusiasm...
...surer of his safety than he had a right to be in a Communist country. Before the week was out, Djilas and Dedijer were haled into the district court of Belgrade for four hours' questioning. The hearing, announced the government, is the opening of a "criminal investigation against Djilas and Dedijer, because of slanderous and hostile propaganda directed at damaging abroad the most vital interests of our country, a criminal...