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...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
Last month the group mustered in Manhattan for a week-long briefing by State Department and U.N. experts before splitting into work parties in ten West African states. Joined by African students for two months of hard labor, they live in primitive villages and tackle man-sized jobs: a youth center in Senegal, a small hospital in Cameroon, a library in Liberia. To test their changing attitudes toward Africa, a researcher from M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies has gone along to travel from group to group talking to the students; he will later return to the villages...
...crowded into Manhattan's grubby St. Nicholas Arena felt that contrite. Actress Maureen Stapleton (Toys in the Attic) rushed weeping to the microphone and announced irrelevantly: "This union is my family and my life." The Actors Equity meeting had convened to ratify a settlement of Broadway's week-long theater blackout. Each side claimed victory, but each side had been hurt. Producers toted up losses of over $1,000,000; Equity owed its 741 locked-out members close to $90,000 in per-diem allowances...
Blough's words were a pointed comment on the gloomy state of mind of many U.S. businessmen, though of course Steel's first quarter reflected pent-up buyer demands after 1959's nearly 17-week-long strike. But for many other companies, business had never been so good - or at least, so big. With first-quarter reports from some 400 of the biggest U.S. companies in by last week, earnings on the average were up 6%. Seldom had there been so much discontent with good news, or such readiness to emphasize the weak spots...
Word of the new liberty enjoyed by city women has spread to the bush. But the news has had a mixed reception. Last week, the Uganda Council of Women was circulating a report on a week-long conference of delegates called from all Uganda to discuss the matrimonial problems of Africans...