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...hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
...operations."There are some companies paying out dividends that would actually be showing no profit at all if they were making the proper set-aside for depreciation of their facilities," says Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, chairman of California's fast-rising Litton Industries. Litton has never in its ten-year history declared a cash dividend, preferring-as many other companies do-to hand out additional shares of stock to its shareholders and to use the retained earnings for expansion and modernization...
...satisfy West Germany's demand for a bigger role in NATO's nuclear defense, but argue that they cannot afford to build their own independent Polaris submarine fleet and contribute as well to MLF, whose 20 to 25 ships are expected to cost $5 billion over a ten-year period. Thanks to Washington's success in selling MLF to Germany and then to Italy, it seemed at first as if the fleet might be built with only a token contribution from Britain...
...often before in his ten-year reign, the throne of Jordan's King Hussein trembled last week. In the capital city of Amman, in old Jerusalem. Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, crowds filled the streets roaring, "Bidna Nasser! Bidna Nasser!" (We want Nasser...
...steelmakers argue that foreign competition actually obliges them to raise prices to finance their ambitious $1 billion-plus modernization program to build automated plants and highly productive basic oxygen plants, and thus catch up with more efficient foreign producers. The industry's profits dropped last year to a ten-year low of $583 million. Saddled with much outdated plant, Wheeling fared worse than most, earning only 3.09% on sales v. the industry average...