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...short, the Lampoon's addition of some serious pieces has been but moderately successful. One can only guess whether or not its editors will accelerate the trend and abolish the magazine's humor completely. If so, the Advocate will have a new and formidable rival...
...nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling Singhs. As a sop to the sentiments of the Hindu minority, however, he offered to let young Karan become the state's constitutional governor for a five-year term. But Karan's father, the old maharaja, who is living...
...garlic imports so severely that Italy, one of the chief foreign suppliers, stood to lose more than half her U.S. sales, which in 1951 totaled about $420,000* Pointing out that Italy had done a good job of combating Communism, the President bravely overruled his commission. The decision to abolish the garlic quota, declared one State Department official, would breathe new life into the campaign for honest and unhampered trade between the U.S. and her allies...
...Pioneers! In Tucson, Ariz., the city council voted to abolish two old ordinances requiring 1) city prisoners on public works to be shackled with ball & chain, and 2) churches to maintain convenient cuspidors...
...Rejected Republican-led moves to remove or loosen federal economic controls. After beating down proposals to abolish price ceilings and to shift rent controls to localities, a Senate majority seemed ready to approve extension of the Defense Production Act until March...