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Western-Style Competition. While op erating on the principle that the more unfit a story may be to print the better it will sell, the new Yugoslav papers are indulging in full-scale competition-Western-capitalist style. They sponsor every imaginable promotion gimmick from beauty contests to lotteries. They take unprecedented liberties with the party speeches and production figures that are the standard fare of most Communist journals, and the space they save is larded with crime, sex and show business. Every clay, Vecernje Novosti devotes its center spread to busty beauties, and often adds a disingenuous caption: "What...
...Russian crew had been busy repainting the grey-green hull and white deckhouse, and touching up the crisp black Cyrillic letters of its name. U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, watching the Russians watching them, and a Navy resupply ship circled near by while its band serenaded the Gidrofon with strident capitalist rock 'n' roll. No sooner had the Gidrofon left than a new trawler appeared on Yankee Station: the Ampermetr. The Conserver was also relieved; Hilder and his crew set off for some well-deserved R and R in Hong Kong, and a fresh set of skunk chasers took...
Even the Guards were disagreeing; in a clash of absurdities in Canton, one group of young hotheads tried to tear down a bronze statue of Sun Yatsen, whom they called a "capitalist reactionary," only to be attacked by another group that felt he was the father of the Chinese revolution...
Whoever was leading the Red Guard purge was getting nervous about the enthusiasm of his charges. Editorials continued to advise "reason" rather than violence in Red Guard attacks on the "capitalist-bourgeois monsters" and suggested repeatedly that "rectification and production" must go together. The fall harvest is just around the corner, and China's leaders are already advising the Red Guards that they must go to the farm for the good of the nation. But how they gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've ruled Peking...
...sophistication, Moscow may be as shocked as any by such ridiculous decrees as the Red Guard demand that troops no longer pass a reviewing stand with a reactionary eyes right but adopt a properly revolutionary eyes left. The Red Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list...