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...Kremlin watchers, things were looking up. First the All-Union House of Fashion, arbiter of Russian couture, lift ed hemlines above the knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place of a four-letter word, Geyelin quotes L.B.J. as saying, "The OAS couldn't pour - - out of a boot if instructions were written on the heel...
Usually, a military change of command is accompanied by the most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO...
...illegal maritime transmitter way back in 1958. He was copied by a handful of Swedes, Norwegians and Dutchmen, but it was left to the bold and buccaneering nation that fathered Sir Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners...
...swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like...