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...have heard from college professors who wanted it as a text in their classes, from high government officials, from religious organizations, and from hundreds of corporations, most of which distributed copies to their own employees or featured it in their company papers. And the chief engineer, Way & Works, Malayan Railway, Kuala Lumpur, who had read the article in TIME's Pacific Edition, asked for a list of books on the subject, which he wished to study "as intensively as possible" before embarking on a career as consultant to the managers of industrial firms in Australia...
...weeks the Soviet zone Communists have subjected West Berlin to a kind of creeping harassment. Item: by increased red tape at the check points, they slowed down allied truck traffic between West Berlin and West Germany. Item: railway workers, teachers and technicians, who worked in East Berlin but lived in the West sectors, were fired from their jobs. Item: some 4,000 young men & women living in the East zone but studying at West Berlin's universities were told that, unless they gave up their studies, they would lose their identity cards, without which life in divided Berlin...
...daughter is Queen, with title to the Balmoral estate in Scotland, Queen Mother Elizabeth announced that she had bought a separate summer retreat for herself. The place which caught her eye: 400-year-old Barrogill Castle, seven miles from John o'Groats and 20 miles from the nearest railway station...
...Steelworkers voted to boost the salary of President Philip Murray from $25,000 to $40,000 a year. If the Salary Stabilization Board in Washington approves the 60% increase, Murray will stand No. 4 in labor's list of big moneymen. The top three: George Harrison, of the Railway Clerks, $76,000 a year, John L. Lewis and James C. Petrillo, $50,000 each...
...genteel Cape Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready...