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...swift plane to soft exile or by swifter bullet, most of the hemisphere's oldtime rightist dictators in fancy uniforms have given way to democracy or to the new kind of nominally democratic strongmen who rule heavily while spieling the jargon of social reform. On the entire South American continent, only one old-school tyrant remains: a trimly mustached, part-German artillery general named Alfredo Stroessner, boss of backward Paraguay. Last week, after a trip into Stroessner's stronghold, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti reported that the survivor is under pressure to retire or reform. Reported Saporiti...
...sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with truckers in building large piggyback terminals, can now go full speed ahead with plans for cheaper, swifter piggybacking service. On the strength of the ICC ruling, Fruehauf Trailer Co.. the largest U.S. truckmaker, last week thought that it might eventually find itself manufacturing more piggybacking equipment than conventional trucks...
...Irish Catholic for President, and added: "There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has." And at Columbia, S.C., Howard University President James Madison Nabrit Jr. told the graduating class of Negro Benedict College: "Swifter than you can imagine, you will have all the rights and privileges of every other citizen in the U.S." That time cannot come too swiftly for young Negroes of 1961-and the John Pattersons of the South can do little to stop them...
Once the nations of the world were fortresses lying snugly behind their three-mile limits, a tradition established 250 years ago, when three miles was the span of a cannon's shot. In the modern world of atoms, rockets, and planes swifter than sound, the wall of the fortress is invisible. The wall is electronic-an outthrust barrier of radars, direction-seeking radios and - aiming instruments. For both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it has become vital to spot and plot the ever-shifting shadows and strengths of the adversary's invisible frontier...
...year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring that jobs for pilots do not decrease too drastically as the swifter, larger jets cut down the number of individual flights. A.L.P.A. does not want to see the third pilot replaced even temporarily by an inspector, for fear it might weaken the union's argument that a third pilot is essential to the safe operation of the jetliners...