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There, the Red Guards were running riot. Into a Canton barbershop burst a squad of Red Guards, accusing the barbers of using "capitalist-smelling" pomade. The barbers struck back, and two teen-age Guards fell, slashed to death. In a Peking side street, a woman wept as her neighbor was led away-but she was weeping for joy. The old man had once hired her for the humiliating duty of wet-nursing his children...
...Communist spy, who doubtless regards the East-West detente as a conspiracy, has yet to come in from the cold war. Judging from two espionage cases in Washington that were disclosed last week by the FBI, the Red system is equally reluctant to adjust its wage-price guidelines to capitalist living costs. For two years of alleged secret-swiping in the Pentagon, a retired Army colonel got just $5,500 from the Soviets - and may face the death penalty. For nearly four years of risky spy projects, a State Department employee (and FBI informant) was paid a mere...
...last week. One was a California soprano, Jane Marsh, 24, who took first prize ($2,775) in the voice competition. At first glance, Marsh seemed too good to sing true. A tall (5 ft. 11 in.) blonde with a fresh-scrubbed athletic look, she is the embodiment of a capitalist American background. She was a tomboy, an expert swimmer, a 4-H girl who in true Walt Disney tradition sold her favorite horse to pay for music lessons. She sang in public professionally for the first time only last season, when Erich Leinsdorf signed her to sing in Beethoven...
...words, "a red-hot Socialist" who railed on street corners against the system that was crushing his father. Today, as a well-to-do lawyer, he is closer to Goldwater in his economic philosophy, has written a number of books with titles like Make Everybody Rich and Be a Capitalist or Be Damned...
...such NATO members as Italy, Denmark and Norway. Old hotels are being refurbished to suit Western tastes, and new ones built. Eight new state catering schools offer a four-year course for waiters, cooks and hostelers. Families are being encouraged by the Communist government to indulge in such capitalist practices as investing in restaurants, inns, shoe-repair shops and motels...