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...women to their four forest camps. Baimungi's men administered oaths of allegiance to the new Kenyan flag - and charged their victims a month's wages for the privilege of swearing them. Women were treated to haircuts by barbarous barbers wielding razor-sharp, 18-inch pangas, then were summarily stripped and raped. The men were merely beaten...
Still, for every tortuous inch gained, there are miles of progress left to be covered. There remain 1,888 Southern school districts where segregation is the rule-and scores of other districts where desegregation sits uneasily in token form. Though Montgomery buses are technically integrated, the city's other public facilities still are not. Team sports are still carefully segregated in a large number of Southern institutions; the NBC television network recently canceled coverage of the annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books...
When a wire containing a core of the new alloy snaps, whiskers sprout from both ends of the break. In a few days, the whiskers can bridge a gap one millimeter wide (about one twenty-fifth of an inch) and carry one watt of electrical power-enough for most of the delicate circuitry in modern spacecraft. Collision with a sizable meteoroid might result in damage too extensive for whisker therapy, admits Minneapolis-Honeywell Physicist William Jarnagin, who led the team that developed the alloy. But that hardly matters, he adds somberly. "Everything would go then...
...intimacy with Bach. Because Gould, 31, is convinced that the bigness of modern concert halls is a harmful anachronism for music designed for parlors, he gives his deepest efforts to his recordings. With a piano on which the stroke of each key has been shortened a fraction of an inch to make its action more like that of a harpsichord, Gould works tirelessly at recording sessions, positioning the microphone so close to the piano that his constant contrapuntal humming sometimes comes through on the records. His recording of the Goldberg Variations in 1956 kindled his career; since then, his concert...
...round of inflation. Wholesale prices have remained remarkably stable for six years, reflecting the lack of inflationary wage pressures and the need to hold down prices to meet foreign competition. But despite a generally good record of price holding in 1963, industry in recent weeks has begun to inch its prices up. For 1964, few at the moment look for more than just a gradual rise in prices-nothing close to a spiraling inflation. But there are stiff wage negotiations due next year, and there is some danger that basic raw material prices may move sharply upward. Either condition could...