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Flexible Tools. Most of the shackles, of course, remain in place. Party dogma is still sacrosanct; when newspaper discussion comes too close to sensitive issues, the party simply chokes it off. While most Western broadcasts are no longer jammed (the jamming equipment has been moved eastward to blank out Radio Peking), non-Communist Western newspapers are still banned in Russia. When the magazine Kommunist recently urged the Russian press to increase its news coverage, its aim was not so much to free the press as to meet the competition. "We have to admit that bourgeois news agencies have achieved...
...encourages parents to apply when their children are born, and most of the top schools book their classes far in advance on a first-come, first-considered basis. Even acquiring an application form is competitive; Allen-Stevenson, which graduates only a dozen boys a year, does not send a blank unless it gets satisfactory telephoned answers to nine questions. The most important: "Who recommended the school to you?" and "What school is the boy attending...
...severally translated La Commedia into rhyming tercets, and translated it amazingly well. John D. Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader without Italian, the most satisfactory versions are those in blank verse. Lawrence Grant White is both accurate and musical, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though his diction is at times antique, presents passages of stunning power and precision. Unfortunately, neither of these is readily available at this writing. In preparing the translations of this article, TIME'S editors principally consulted...
Though he could never have come to power without Boumedienne's unwavering support, Ben Bella in recent months had decided to get rid of the army men in his Cabinet. One reason may have been Ben Bella's anger at the army's point-blank refusal to send "liberation" troops to the Congo, Portuguese Guinea and Israel-as proposed by the President. In any event, the first officer to be ousted, he decided, would be Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, a former F.L.N. commissar under Boumedienne and a close friend of the army commander. Then, after...
...head the government. The National Legislative Council was dissolved; now the two civilian chiefs were responsible directly to the military. At week's end, the generals were still busying themselves with the shape of the new regime. As one participant put it: "We are starting with a blank sheet of paper...