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...will' include schools for young princes, a hospital, zoo, mosque, tennis court, swimming pool and houses for all Saud's wives, concubines, and sons under 16. In the palaces, green neon tubing spells out Koranic mottoes on garden walls, loudspeakers thunderously relay a news broadcast or the chant of a court poet reciting the Koran...
...Moscow trip went off with bands and bunting, and fortnight ago Gomulka returned with a number of small concessions, but no sense of victory. Thousands of Poles, happy and even a little surprised to see him back, jammed the Warsaw station to welcome him, chant and toss bouquets. But to the chanting throng Gomulka would only say: "We went to Moscow and talked to the Soviet leaders as equals, a very important thing for us. We put an end to the great differences between Soviet words and Soviet deeds. Polish-Soviet friendship can now proceed without serious obstacles...
...scenes, organized or spontaneous, began as what one Pole called "demonstrations of happiness." But as they continued, their temper turned bitter. In Wroclaw (formerly the German Breslau) demonstrating students who started off shouting "Long live Poland" gradually progressed to "Tell the truth about the Katyn murders"* and a steady chant of "Rokossovsky, go home." ("What do they want from me?" lamented the dejected Soviet proconsul. "After all, I was born in Poland and my parents are buried here...
...Familiar Chant. In Oregon this year, Democratic registration has moved ahead of Republican. Wayne Morse has strong financial support from COPE, the political arm of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and labor, as rarely before, is organizing the precincts on Morse's behalf. Moreover, Democrat Morse has a break on the issues: 1) because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power...
...want a Gujarat state!" they chanted as Nehru prepared to begin. The Prime Minister tried to banter with them. "I detect a sort of mild fever here." The chant persisted, so Nehru dug in. "The bilingual state of Bombay will come into being on November 1, and there is no power on earth which can flout the decision of Parliament," said he. From the audience came the roar: "It will not happen!" "You want to bet?" shouted Nehru, his face taut...