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While trade and industrial output have increased on the whole, construction has slowed down. A recently built model city, Titograd, in Montenegro stands half-finished and deserted. The ugly, square, cement hotel, a huge department store, administration buildings are surrounded by open spaces and ruins of the old town. Another mark of prestige, the excellent cement highway between Belgrade and Zagreb conveys more hay-wagons than cars...
With all this, the Democratic Party is obviously neither dead nor dying-but its leaves look healthier than its roots. The Eisenhower victory broke both ends of the Roosevelt coalition-both the Southern conservatives and the Northern cities. This is the kind of coalition that needs the cement of power; in opposition, the parts are almost certain to increase their internal strife. Many 1952 Democratic voters stayed with the party out of fear that the Republicans would "take it away." No answer to that in words can possibly be so effective as an answer in facts. If the Republicans...
...Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...
...cronies and family began cashing in on that weakness. Son Khalil's law practice and business deals began showing enormous profits. So did Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...
During the next few days U.N. planes attacked a cement factory (whose output was being used for Red fortifications) at Osu, about 35 miles north of the 38th parallel in western Korea, and supply targets on both coasts and in Pyongyang, the already battered North Korean capital. The Reds complained with almost unprecedented shrillness. Radio Pyongyang called the U.N. air campaign "a new international crime worse than the atrocities committed by Hitler." The Communists also protested the U.N. use of napalm firebombs as an act of "barbarism," a charge long made by European Communists and fellow travelers...