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...Stinnes was brought into a crowded Bremen courtroom to answer a $4.5 million suit brought by a German mines association, which is trying to recover special compensations that the association claims were wrongly paid four years ago to one of his holding companies. Loss of the full amount could threaten Stinnes' cash-shy empire with bankruptcy...
...longer draws its support from cloth-capped workers clamoring to be delivered from the "thralldom of wagedom," as they called it. Its present and potential appeal is to middle-and working-class Britons who are skeptical of socialist dogma and hostile to any radical social experiments that might threaten their living standards. What they desperately want is more and better education, housing, hospitals and highways, and they fault the Conservative government for not meeting or even fully grasping their need. As a result, Britain's mood today, said former Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee, is once more "the spirit...
...possible. Still, much of the Negro's attention has shifted to protest against de facto segregation in the North, where segregation created by neighborhood housing patterns presents a far more complex problem. Negro leaders in New York, Boston, Oakland, Calif., Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago (see EDUCATION) threaten a mass "stay-out" by Negro students this fall from schools that are mostly Negro if only by reason of residence. In New Rochelle, N.Y., and several other cities, some Negro children during the next school year will be transported by tax-supported buses to nonsegregated schools. There is even...
...Saigon cocktail parties, Army Boss General Hinh used to threaten a coup almost daily and joke that when he overthrew the government he would exile every member of Diem's family except Mme. Nhu, whom, he said, he would keep as a concubine. One day Mme. Nhu finally met Hinh face to face at a party. She walked over to him, recalls an observer, and said: "You are never going to overthrow this government because you don't have the guts. And if you do overthrow it, you will never have me because I will claw your throat out first...
...dragged by the hair by Pritchett himself, and thrown into her cell. After being transferred to a juvenile detention center in another county, she was placed in solitary confinement and the light was removed from her cell. Later a police dog was brought to her cell and allowed to threaten her. When she finally responded to this treatment, she declared that she didn't need an electric light because Jesus was her light. She refused to talk with the FBI men who came to ask how she had been treated. The last is understandable from her experience...