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After three months of sit-ins marked by a near-riot, mass arrests and the dynamiting of a Negro city councilman's home, urbane Nashville last week asserted its moderate nature by becoming the South's first city to yield to Negro demands for lunch-counter equality. Opened...
WHILE Bicks goes after price fixing and active restraints of trade, his main emphasis is on what he calls "preventive medicine"-challenging mergers and tie-ins that could diminish competition. Bigness alone does not worry him.
With the coming of the South's sultry summer. Negroes intend to turn the heat on a new front in their campaign against segregation. Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters will give way to "wade-ins" at segregated public beaches. "Negroes get hot just like white people do," said...
But still the new ones went up (65 hotels from 1946 to 1960), and competition got steadily keener. To lure guests, many hotels have switched to the American plan, tossing in two meals for only $3 a day more. Some hotels have tried tie-ins with airlines and tourist agencies...
* Not so Harry Truman, who told a Cornell University news conference that he thought the sit-ins were ''engineered by Communists." Later he said he had been misquoted, but a tape recording had him cold.