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Soviet officials would prefer inquisitive foreigners to believe that the elaborate privacy is for the benefit of disabled war veterans and aged proletarians in nearby rest homes and hospitals. In fact, as every Muscovite knows, the fence hides a cluster of sumptuous villas belonging to the Kremlin elite. They are the most luxurious examples of the dacha (country house), a cherished retreat for every Russian lucky enough to have one, and a coveted status symbol for those who do not. There are approximately 40,000 dachas within a 30-mile radius of Moscow alone, including elegant mansions of the country...
...over the city, from St. Cloud to Montparnasse, from Place d'ltalie to Belleville, there are signs of building, burrowing and bulldozing. Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean...
...auto profits are benefiting because it has not. Enough status-conscious buyers remain to boost sales of luxury cars, such as Cadillacs and Imperials, to record levels. Even minicar purchasers, while shunning big-car prestige, are choosing comfort and convenience along with transportation. Although prices of stripped-down minicars cluster around $2,000, the average price of those sold is considerably higher because motorists are selecting fancy options. Roughly 81% of the cars sold today contain power steering; 63% have factory-built air conditioning; 58% come with vinyl tops; and 3.6% have stereo tape players...
...first thing one senses is that the Israeli race to dig in is over. Only once, beside the Suez Canal, did I see earth movers working in a cluster, bolstering causeways that already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...
...that was so cozy and comfortable for so long, the Japanese have come to accept your thesis that their long near-total reliance on Washington's leadership is now obsolete-a relic of the cold war era when there were just two antagonistic giants, each with its own cluster of clients. But while they welcome a little more independence, the Japanese fear that the new five-power future espoused by the President could be as unworkable as the old two-power world. As they see it, Nixon's (and your) new world is already so lopsided...