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Vodka & Freedom. But workers, no longer menaced by secret police, dreamed of a freedom of their own-the right to stay away from work. In the first half of 1957, absenteeism has more than doubled, to 26 million man-hours lost. To drown their woes, they took to drink at an increasing rate (7.5 liters hard liquor per head per year-30% above 1956). Gomulka warned the workers that he could not raise wages until they produced more; the workers replied that they would not work harder without some real evidence of a better life. They began agitating for wage...
...Rome's most modern newspaper plant, the well-oiled whir of the new Czech presses could not drown the hollow clunk of the empty cash register. L'Unità, the free world's biggest Communist newspaper and second biggest daily in Italy (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera), was as deep...
Frenchmen still agree that the water cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...
...mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood of filibluster...
...Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve other people and other lives like planets in a void, always near enough to hail but never near enough to help...