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...Russia the twist is still an underground movement, banned as an example of capitalist degeneracy, but most of the satellites have given up fighting the dance. Typical is Hungary, which, to dissuade its youth from tuning in on Western radio stations, actually imported twist records and commissioned Budapest's top cat, Janos Koos, to groove some twist disks of his own. Next, testing the theory that deep-rhythm music eases industrial tensions by sublimating aggressions, efficiency experts in a Hungarian textile factory gave the workers a 15-minute break, during which twist music was piped through the plant. Bill...
...Capitalist Hangover. Hand kissing got its start in Europe with the Roman emperors, who exported the gesture as a symbolic act of fealty. In Central Europe it ceased to be a pledge of loyalty to the sovereign in the late 18th century, when Austrian Emperor Joseph II snatched his hand from subjects' lips with the cry: "It isn't there for someone to wipe his nose on!" More recently Mussolini, who frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss...
...idea to found Itek-short for "information technology"-came in 1957 from two longtime friends who saw a future in air reconnaissance for arms control. The two: Richard Leghorn, then head of Kodak's European division; and Theodore Walkowicz, then and now an associate of Venture Capitalist Laurance Rockefeller. Walkowicz got the Rockefeller interests to put up $600,000 and became a director. Leghorn was chosen president...
...recent months, newspapers and magazines have rejoiced over the behavior of the "good 8th Company on Nanking Road," an army detachment on garrison duty in the heart of wicked Shanghai. These heroes have preserved their Communist purity for 14 long years in the face of innumerable temptations by bourgeois capitalist devils. When "professional loafers" tried to bribe them with wads of banknotes, the money was spurned; when "overdressed women accosted them on the street, the soldiers ordered them away." One soldier found a penny and promptly turned it over to the company's political instructor, who explained...
...taken on that East German dullness, but last week its streets were brightened by mint green Mercedeses and sapphire Jaguars as Western businessmen got together with potential Communist customers. At the annual Leipzig fall trade fair, cognac and Scotch flowed freely in the displays set up by 1,600 capitalist companies. The wares of only two U.S. outfits were visible-Sunkist Growers and W. S. Hall, a Manhattan book handler-but there were more non-Communist exhibits than last year...