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Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...
...Communists have captured the great propaganda citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...
...Britain alone, but throughout the world, the welfare state was on the rise. Even the U.S., which had a more or less undeserved reputation as the last great citadel of individual independence, was entering a new phase of its long debate over socialized services. One of the warmest issues in the U.S. at the moment was socialized medicine...
Festerings in the Tanbark. While Hungarian art was thus being purified, the Communist citadel itself was polluted. Russian musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, drama critics, publishers, ice skaters and brass bands have already been purged. But the most awesome new menace to Soviet culture had festered in the tanbark of Russian circuses. It was known as "Western clownism...
...August's windows have just taken shape. No flash or luxury items this year; gadgets, leather cases, etc. are out. Practical wearing apparel is featured in this citadel of tradition, but a new line of ties has sneaked in somehow, and is expected to be successful...