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...most striking contrast is between the poverty of the masses and the grotesque luxury of the Communist elite. There is no middle ground between the peasant donkey cart and the chauffeur-driven Mercedes from the state motor pool. Farm land is almost totally collectivized, and most peasants are virtually paid off with a lek and a promise. Tirana has a TV transmitter that broadcasts to a total of 200 TV sets owned by party officials. Albanian workers patch holes in their trousers with bits of vulcanized rubber, but in the new "jet class" "the men wear Italian-cut suits...
...sorts, from Scotland's Caithness Courier (circ. 6,000) to England's big Kemsley chain. Editors and publishers goggled at the sight of the gregarious Canuck who told risque stories in a deliberate and successful effort to crack the British reserve, and rode in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac to the subway tube-to be met at the other end by a chauffeur-driven Rolls...
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Thank you for the enormously kind way you described my ride at the Washington horse show [Nov.'3]. Actually it was a very nice horse, and if he'd had any kind of a chauffeur up on him at all, he'd have done pretty well. Anyway, Bobby says if I can be referred to as the onetime scourge of the equestrian East, give him five more years and he'll be All-American...
Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...