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...code, "all are entitled to the same privileges, advantages and respect." Private property is forbidden, except for such things as books and clothing, and even with that loophole, most members draw their clothing, right down to their underwear, from a massive community closet. No one is allowed to boast of individual accomplishments, to gossip ("negative speech") or to be intolerant of another's beliefs...
...President Nixon has described as "one of the most serious challenges to human destiny." Yet it is sometimes hard to believe -at least in America-that it really exists. The nation does have its slums and traffic jams, its squalors of polluted air and water, but it can also boast mile upon mile of open land, forests and farms that stretch to the horizon. Is all this doomed by the arrival of tomorrow's children...
...anticapitalists continue to make capital out of Ping Pong. Preceding the arrival of the Chinese team in the U.S. will be a whole line of Chinese table tennis equipment with the beguiling brand name Double Happiness. The equipment will be marketed by two Los Angeles firms and will boast the endorsement of the Chinese team, with the blessing of Chairman Mao himself...
Little Gray Lady. That boast could be made about Glamis Castle alone if the Gazetteer's listings are to be taken on faith. Within those walls, for instance, are the ghosts of a little gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...
...Though less of a social watering spot, the summer sales at Keeneland boast no less inflated prices. It was there in 1968 that a Norfolk, Va., grocery-chain owner outbid the late Charles Engelhard to set a still unbroken record: $405,000 for a filly, Reine Enchanteur...