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...should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs to take back...
...record straight on Fidel Castro's "malicious innuendoes and distortions of history" in his 4½-hour harangue before the world body last month. In a 10,000-word paper, each of Castro's 19 major complaints was thoroughly answered. To Castro's charge that the capitalist U.S. "cannot propose a plan for public investment," the U.S. replied that it "contributes more to economic development of other countries than any other government in the world . . ." To his complaint that the U.S. shelters war criminals, it answered that great numbers have indeed fled Castro's Cuba...
...quarrel with Khrushchev, dating back to 1958, was temporarily dissolved again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza. Not confined like Khrushchev to Manhattan, he motored up to Hyde Park to visit Franklin Roosevelt's grave. Tito even maintained his aplomb after stumbling down a flight...
...other nations, above all the newly independent countries, where continued political independence depends on economic stability and growth. The U.S. spoke out in Washington at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the two agencies that together comprise a board of trustees for the capitalist system...
...Capitalist by Accident. The millionaire proprietor of this Midwest publishing empire never intended to be a capitalist. Son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...