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One Sunday, Mrs. Rebekah Harkness Kean, whose great personal fortune had its headwaters in Standard Oil, invited the Russian dancers up for a party. "If they're going to be exposed to capitalism, they might as well get it all in one fell swoop," said Mrs. Kean. No one...
Behind the bolted doors of a headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, 150 youths snapped to attention, clicked their heels and gave a Nazi-style straight-arm salute. At a command, three high school boys entered the room. The neophytes chorused an oath, swearing to defend with their lives "the permanent...
At the public reception atop Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, six-year-old pig-tailed Natasha Popovich stood at her father's side and happily waved at the 80,000 people jammed in the square below. Then it was time for speeches; sure enough, the Russians could...
The yen to counterfeit comes to a toothless loan shark, a loudmouthed used-car salesman ("The all-time jerk-he belongs in the National Bureau of Standards") and a fatcat brothelkeeper whose place of business has been shut down by the police. "Private enterprise," the pimp complains indignantly, "is being...
His plan to raise the low per capita income of Burmese, estimated at $55 a year, is embodied in a document called The Burmese Way to Socialism, which denounces the "profit motive, easy living, parasitism, shirking and selfishness," but is so cloudily written that it has been interpreted both as...