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Army caps and tunics with the epaulets and other badges of rank ripped off have lately become familiar sights around Moscow. For the 250,000 officers due to go, the adjustment is going to be tough; in theoretically classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce...
Marxist Monastery. No one learns earlier than the Russian executive the grim tasks of stooging for the state, of apple polishing, buck passing, of loading ledgers and unloading responsibility, finding loopholes in Parkinson's Law and keeping ahead by one whisker in the career race. Marx wrote: "The Communists...
Bad Buy. The officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired...
Fourteen Hours. Faced with these problems, most Indians beg for time that may not be available. India has been independent only twelve years, they say, and already the inequities of the caste system have been abolished-at least by law if not in practice. The sacredness of cows and the...
Under Nehru, India has had generally sound government, a stable currency and a working democracy through its years of independence. The press is free, the restraints of free speech and assembly are minimal. Forty million Indians attend school and college, and the number is to be doubled in five years...