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...granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela shipment and all other "abnormal" oil consignments to Rhodesia, but not necessarily break off trade completely...
...down by the Association of American Railroads' imprimatur. Indeed, a bill giving the ICC greater rate-setting leeway last year passed the Senate, now is stalled in the House. Still undaunted, the ICC ordered that all railroads receiving boxcars from the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific promptly unload them and return them to their corporate owners within 24 hours. If the receiving rail lines ignore this order, the ICC will probably have to go into the courts...
...nearby hill. "It was the most spectacular and important project we've had to date," said Colonel Hart. It also was one of the most urgently needed: before the new pier was put in use, as many as 47 ships choked the bay waiting to unload; last week there were none...
...senior faculty treated the tutors' proposals as something selfishly of the tutors, for the tutors and by the tutors. They neglected the "teacherly" motivations for reforms such as the senior seminar. Fleming spoke of the tutors' trying to "unload" thesis writers into the seminars, and Handlin asserted that, all things being equal, no undergraduate would opt for the senior seminars, and some people might have to be forced into the program...
...glut of poor-quality textiles, including cheap shirts labeled in English "The Very Honorable, Foreign Made," also produces cheap shoes called Baby Doll to compete with those from Czechoslovakia's Communist-owned Bata shoe factory. Unable to sell either item to the West, Hungarian companies were forced to unload them on home consumers at cut-rate prices...