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...lives of most Russians. In the fourth volume of his memoirs, entitled Post-War Years: 1945-54, Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote that "it is far easier to change policy and the economic system than to alter human consciousness." Russians, said Ehrenburg, who died in September, "have been unable to divest themselves of a sense of constriction, of fear, of casuistry, of survivals from the past." Today, most Russians long only for a quiet life, a little more freedom, a few more privileges, a bit more self-respect. Despite all the anniversary hoopla, the fund of enthusiasm produced by the revolution...
...unprecedented application of the Clayton Act, Federal District Judge Warren J. Ferguson last week ordered the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times, to divest itself of the San Bernardino Sun and Telegram, a pair of papers it acquired in 1964 for $15 million. San Bernardino is 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and the company contended that its acquisition of the two papers did not change the journalistic situation in that area because there never had been much competition between the Times and the San Bernardino papers. But the judge took a different tack...
...Liberals "must divest themselves of the notion that the nation, especially the cities, can be run from agencies in Washington." Because the Federal Government is "good at collecting revenues and rather bad at disbursing services," federal money should be shared generously with state and local authorities on a "permanent, ongoing basis." Initiative in using the money should be left to the locality. "Let us be frank. The original, determining opposition to this proposition has come from liberals, not conservatives, in Washington, and we should be ashamed of ourselves...
Second, liberals must divest themselves of the notion that the nation, especially in the cities of the nation, can be run from agencies in Washington...
...Splits. For all its recent success, United Fruit still has some problems. Under a 1958 federal antitrust ruling, the company must divest itself of enough of its banana operations to create a new, competing company by 1971. That only dramatizes the company's overreliance on a single commodity; despite its other interests (including Revere Sugar, Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.), bananas still account for 65% of its business. Consequently, United Fruit last year acquired the J. Hungerford Smith Co. (manufacturer of soda-fountain syrups) and the A & W root beer-stand system, only last month bought up the Baskin-Robbins...