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...effect the Court decision will have on opinion abroad, he examined the role of every segment of the American population in implementing it. "The story I should like most to stress for our foreign friends and visitors is that of the great army of the forgotten or even the unknown: dedicated people, who worked in obscurity for the education and the inner development of the racial minorities, particularly in the South...
...general, Cabot, with his total investment assets of approximately $308,000,000 faces the same problems as the 17th century treasurer. Although dealing in bigger sums, he has confidence and security unknown in the precarious past, and this is the major difference...
Last week the statue was being dried of its centuries-old dampness before being shown to the public. Experts had decided that it dated from the early 16th century, and that it was done in limestone from Bath, probably by an unknown English artist. After some diligent detective work, the experts also produced a theory about how the statue got where it was. The fact that it lay on its side five feet below the floor at a point roughly in the center of the chapel indicated that it had been deliberately buried...
Many problems must still be ironed out before piggybacking can cash in on its prospects. The Interstate Commerce Commission will soon hold hearings to decide such basic issues as rates and Government regulation. Another unknown is the final stand to be taken by Dave Beck's Teamsters Union. The Teamsters opposed piggybacking on the New Haven, have been restrained from disrupting it only by a court injunction. But Beck, who has gone along with the shipment of trailers by water, now seems resigned. Says he: "We have no objections to piggybacking or any other form of transportation as long...
...Department in Washington to help stop it. But both Bell and the 47,184 U.S. new-car dealers know that it is more an effect than a cause. The real trouble is that automakers are producing more cars than dealers can sell. Even dealers in areas where bootlegging is unknown are having trouble clearing their showroom floors. Detroit, which has little bootlegging, has lost 30 dealers in the last year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone under; in Oklahoma, 150; in Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long...