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...conclude, if the determination of the people to pursue their economic objectives leads to a corrupt political system being discarded, as in the case of Pakistan, and to a change in the form of government, it is hardly wothwhile to deprecate it merely in order to chime in with some new exponent of a redefined "free world." Shaukat Awan Graduate School of Public Administration
...Soviets evidently had not expected to hear. In Geneva last week the International Labor Organization expelled Communist Hungary's delegates. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local Communist branch demanded that the national party publicly condemn the executions, and even Prime Minister Nehru felt obliged to chime in with a "most distressing...
...what made the railroads pleasantly different from more modern forms of transportation. But since the war distressed fans have watched the roads transformed into just another mass-produced product of General Motors. Almost everywhere the nasal blat of diesel air horns has replaced the musical tones of multiple-chime steam whistles...
...that its roof becomes part of the plaza. Inside the glass-walled pavilion is an auditorium in the round. Jutting through the roof of the building into the plaza will be three arrangements of tubular, gold-colored carillons that will soar 80 feet into the air and gently chime throughout the center. "Architecture," said Knight, "will be able to reach out and touch the lives of many more people than would be possible through vision alone...
...vestibule, race to the engine, and consume a role of Kodachrome in the excitement of the moment. If he's not taking photographs--and 99 percent of the world's respectable railroad enthusiasts do--he'll probably be readjusting his tape recorder so he can eternally preserve the chime whistle he knows will come at a crossing about a mile and two-thirds down the road...