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...nations receiving help under the U.S. foreign aid program, none is so exasperating as Indonesia. Despite $881 million in U.S. handouts since 1946, Indonesia is an economic shambles. Factories lie idle for lack of spare parts, roads go unrepaired, and harbors clog with silt. "In Indonesia," the saying goes, "chaos is organized." Only Communist-coddling President Sukarno's 400,000-man military force seems to thrive...
Dark Suits & Mantillas. By 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, tour buses from all over Europe had begun to jockey for parking spaces next to the majestic curve of the Bernini colonnade that guards St. Peter's Basilica. Cars and taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...
...When that field became glutted, they began buying companies that made consumer products out of petrochemicals. Standard Oil of Ohio now owns the Prophylactic Brush Co. (toothbrushes), Phillips Petroleum makes plastic film for the packaging industry, and Continental Oil is preparing to market a detergent that does not clog sewers with foam...
...bold enough to suggest that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ought to sack a loyal employee for that, but one McNamara order that particularly piqued Subcommittee Chairman John Moss was the still-standing rule that Pentagon officials must report all talks with newsmen. "This may well constitute a clog on full freedom of information," said Moss. Not at all, retorted Sylvester. Then Artless Art nearly put his foot in his mouth once more. "In an operation as large as the Defense Department," said he, "you have to know what is going on if you are going to manage"-oops...
...under the delusion that it was prose poetry. English is a patient enemy, but after 35 years, scene after scene is maimed or destroyed by O'Neill's self-indulgent reliance on bumbling, commonplace speech and gassy rhetoric. Strange Interlude's famed asides, or internal monologues, clog the flow of the action without adding density of meaning...