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...dawn, six explosions had been set off, heavily damaging four prominent Negro churches and the homes of two antisegregationist ministers-one of them white. The ministers: the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, right-hand man to the Rev. Martin Luther King during the year-long boycott that had preceded last month's Supreme Court victory on bus integration (TIME, Nov. 26); and the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of a Negro Lutheran church and also an active boycott leader. No one was injured, but Graetz and his family might well have been slaughtered as they ran from the house...
...repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different kind of fighting in Korea, Gene got his pro career under way in earnest. He came to New York last week, winner of 37 out of 40 fights, 20 by knockouts...
Director Fuller came by his money through his father, a pioneering Manhattan urological surgeon with a canny eye for investments. His taste in art he owes to his mother, who began collecting Chinese antiques and Oriental snuff bottles in 1918, later took the whole Fuller family on a year-long junket through the Far East. Recalls Fuller: "I bought a small white jade in Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest...
Actually, says Black, "trained people are needed more than money in underdeveloped countries." To supply the need, the bank currently runs a year-long course for junior-rank career officials, training them in such subjects as balance of payments, national-income accounting, project preparation, etc. Black has also set up a school for senior governmental officials. Among his students last week: Colombia's national-planning director, the financial adviser of Pakistan, the economic director for Egypt's finance ministry...
...year-long fight between Greek-speaking Cypriots and their British masters in the crown colony of Cyprus, 92 people had lost their lives up to week's end-not a very big figure when set against such other tragic struggles as Kenya and Algeria. But what made it heartbreaking is the fact that it is a fight between friends. Greeks have fought beside Britons for freedom since Byron; they cannot understand now why the British should deny their fellow Greeks' desire for self-determination...