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...with growing competitive confidence, the company shows signs of being ready to kick over at least some of the cartel traces. Recently A.K.U. directors were informed that Rhône-Poulenc, which has long held a near-monopoly of the French artificial fiber market, expected foreign producers to refrain from selling in France despite Common Market tariff cuts. Exploded one top A.K.U. executive: "I don't give a damn what they expect...
...that integration will come "through evolution rather than revolution." One might answer that the hiring of a few Negro sales-girls and floor-sweepers in white-owned shops hardly constitutes a revolution, but to say such things is to talk to oneself. Reason is no answer to the constant refrain: "we don't want trouble...
Five years ago, a high school teacher who taught his class about Communism often had to fear assorted legal and social penalties; under Georgia law, for example, he might have been accused of breaking his oath to refrain from "teaching any theory of government or economics or of social relations which is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of patriotism and high ideals of Americanism." Last week the same teacher might have been at a summer seminar learning how best to present Communist history and theory to his twelfth-graders next fall. Growing up to the cold realities of the cold...
...invited," read the program, "to greet and praise De Koven in the Ladies' Lounge. Please refrain from criticizing the Maestro, for it never does any good and only gives De Koven the colic." At Manhattan's Town Hall last week, that injunction served to introduce Classical Disk Jockey Seymour De Koven, an evangelist of the baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like...
...their elders-voted to oust Broadway's minister, the Rev. Stuart Merriam, 38. Also removed from office were the church's ten pro-Merriam elders, who were replaced by a presbytery-appointed commission. Merriam was asked to remove his personal belongings from the church-and even to refrain from attending Sunday services there. A substitute preacher-Dr. Paul Franklin Hudson, formerly of Indianapolis' Second Presbyterian Church, and something of a stormy petrel himself (TIME. Nov. 24)-was picked to be temporary pastor...