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...cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically beset by overproduction-and still selling off the remains of last year's record crop-the freeze was something of a deliverance...
...Socialist Majesties." But Cambodia, like many pleasant and languid places, is now beset by pressing economic problems. The planned $26 million deficit for this fiscal year has unexpectedly doubled, and the government is so short of cash that the current Five Year Plan is literally out of money. Some $24 million worth of public projects have had to be canceled, and foreign exchange reserves are dwindling at the rate of $1,500,000 a month...
Under Russian Occupation. The Administration was beset by other Cuban embarrassments last week. U.S. newspapers reported an intensive buildup of Soviet strength on the island. According to some accounts, upwards of 20,000 Soviet troops are still in Cuba. Construction of underground depots, heavy pillboxes, hangars and runways is moving ahead rapidly under Russian supervision. The island's antiaircraft missile defenses are being strengthened. Cuba is virtually under Russian occupation. In Havana's harbor lie a dozen ships flying the hammer and sickle. Cuban shoppers buy Russian canned foods. Plaques and pictures praise "martyrs of the proletariat." Tens...
...Power. But even then, Britons could not come to terms with the harsh reality of vanished might. Their feeling of shock today is all the greater because it has been so long delayed. As if by some malevolent design, a whole series of frustrations and failures has beset Britannia in a few short months, deepening the nation's angst. The abrupt U.S. cancellation of the Skybolt missile rudely exposed the fact that Britain's "independent" nuclear deterrent is in fact almost wholly dependent on Washington. There was a time when U.S. Presidents sought Britain's counsel...
...memory. Usually, it is knowledge of recent and current events that seems to vanish. But it may be the memory of colors, or dates, or shapes, or perhaps most significant, of emotionally important events. Even the senses present puzzling problems. Vision may become poorer, but so subtly that the beset patient does not recognize his difficulty. Or he may be depressed by a general decline in his responsiveness to sensory stimuli, or by a partial failure of his mental computer to pull together the stimuli received through different senses...