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...Freeze in the Backyard...
Nowhere is the struggle more apparent than in Red China's own backyard. Last week nine parties-North Viet Nam, North Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium -joined Peking in sending congratulatory telegrams to Tirana for the outcast Albanian Communist Party's 20th anniversary.* The parties in Red China's key neighbor states-Japan and India...
...Battle Creek, Mich. Says Couch: "Civil defense must be part of the normal way of life. Like smallpox vaccination, we've got to get used to it and build it into the normal fabric of our lives. In the old days, for instance, outhouses sat in the backyard; now the bathroom has moved inside. Garages used to sit on the edge of the lot; now many garages have been built into the home. The next room to follow this pattern is the family fallout shelter...
...Gibbons' surprise, Luken petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for another election, hopes to have it scheduled by Labor Day. "That will permit Mr. Gibbons to get back to St. Louis," he cried, "and try to turn the hose on the fire that is burning in his own backyard, where the taxicab drivers appear to be bolting the Teamsters...
...shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...