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...Civil Rights Committee flatly recommended outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
...control on such matters as staying out late, wearing makeup, dressing smartly. Margaret dislikes her royal duties, though she enjoys the prerogatives of her station. When she was down with measles last May she remembered a young Highland officer of her acquaintance who had had measles in his youth. Forthwith she sent a telegram: "Come at once." The young man's commanding officer gave him leave, and the laddie hastened to the ailing Princess...
...next day the Countess mused dourly that the woman might have been a Red spy. And the case was complicated by the fact that Mathematics Teacher Samarin dramatically turned himself over to the FBI. This week no less a person than Russian Ambassador Panyushkin asked that Samarin be returned forthwith...
...Directors Say No. In July the twelve unions which man the Met were told that before the board would consider raises, the Met would close its doors. Most of the unions forthwith abandoned their demands. But two-the musicians' (which has had no wage increases in two years) and the wardrobe attendants'-insisted that the Met at least give them some kind of unemployment insurance. As a non-profit organization the Met pays no real-estate taxes, deducts no social-security benefits...
...Hours for Lunch. What devaluation means to the average Mexican is something else. With devaluation, prices of imported articles go up forthwith. Then up go prices of domestic articles which depend on foreign raw materials. Prices of purely domestic articles follow suit, because even tortilla vendors would like to own a radio...