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...Bulgaria must be Nikita Khrushchev's favorite satellite. Even East Germany, which usually can toady just as well as Bulgaria, has caused Khrushchev some embarrassment with its insistence on the ugly Berlin Wall. Yet this month, when Bulgaria celebrated the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, Nikita did not bother to attend. Last week East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was in Bulgaria commiserating with Premier Todor Zhivkov, 53, who certainly deserved better than a cold Khrushchevian snub...
...shall not bother you with symptoms, except to say that I am now having recurrent liver trouble, plus pretty nearly all the other afflictions normal for a 53-year-old man in a tired, rundown condition. My doctor says, in effect, that I am like the One Hoss Shay just prior to its famous last journey-still able to take the road, but unless immediately repaired, quite likely to come apart for good...
Reluctant to Bother. The cure for the quivering pound is as plain as its cause: trade. Manufacturers claim that rising costs and shortages of skilled labor are hampering exports, but that is not the whole story. Ted Heath, President of the Board of Trade, called last week for "more aggressive salesmanship overseas, based on new manufacturing techniques and keenly competitive costs." The trouble is that when business is good at home, many small firms do not want to bother with exports. British officials, noting that Britain's share of the giant U.S. market has slipped this year, tried...
...preparation." Although many other colleges believe in the homogeneity of an entering class, the Harvard experience has proved otherwise. Few will object to a recognition that the first course at college need not be uniform. But some will say that if certain freshmen are coming so well-prepared why bother to create special General Education courses for them...
There is some possibility that Johnson will succeed in staying out of the fights in Texas even after the election; "he's got the world now," a friend of his has said, "why should he bother with Texas?" But the in-fighting may grow so intense that he will be forced to intercede, for Johnson has no fondness for unmended fences...