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Three and a half years ago Johnson invited a group of whites to Fisk to live, eat and work for three weeks in unheard-of proximity to Negroes. It was a dangerous experiment for Nashville, but Johnson carried it off; and it has become an annual affair. Says Johnson: "People who are separated in their compartments always believe the worst of others. If you bring them together so that it doesn't violate their first defenses, they discover that the worst isn't going to happen...
...Copland's Jazz Concerto, unheard since 1930, was programed this week by Pianist Leo Smit and Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony...
Ever since twenty of, time had almost stopped in the section, and Vag caught himself looking at his wristwatch for what must have been the fifth or sixth time. The instructor, unheard, went doggedly on. Vag grimaced and began watching the rest of the room from his back-row seat. He saw with satisfaction the guy directly in front of him--the one who always knew answers--pause in his note-taking to glance at the electric wall clock...
...Potatoes. This hatred of Moscow is as strong as anywhere in Finland, which I found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
...operate "an effective nonscheduled air cargo service." Its "effectiveness" caused shivers to 2,730 new small operators, many of whom are veterans flying surplus planes. They now charge an average of 20? a ton mile. American plans to carry cargo at rates ranging from 18? down to the unheard-of low of 11? a ton mile for big shipments on long hauls...