Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Juscelino Kubitschek has shipped in 7,000 tons of food and 10,000 tons more is en route. But corruption is commonplace among the local relief agencies that give out the supplies. In one town political bosses pocketed a flat 25% from each man's 30?. In other areas the government farmed out relief projects to private contractors who paid off flage-lados in unwanted goods, e.g., hair oil, then bought it back at half price...
...Britain were to vote at the U.N. for the admission of the Chinese government and the exclusion of the Chiang Kai-shek representative," Chou En-lai promised to behave better. "It mattered not whether Britain were voted down: probably she would be in a minority," Wilson was told. "But if at any rate her position were made clear, China would immediately agree to the exchange of ambassadors...
...En Garde, Avant-Garde...
...Puerto Rican hospital, grimly commented when asked if he felt free: "I feel hemmed in." With a posse of reporters yelping at their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped six times en route, vomited on roadside grass as cameras clicked. Later, taut-nerved Nathan Leopold flew to New York and on to Puerto Rico, at his destination said humbly: "You can't imagine how happy...
...peak of stage management was achieved by Red China. Hundreds of thousands lined the roads as Sukarno passed; schoolchildren paraded, youth groups cried "Hidup Bung Karno!" Flow ers and confetti and drums and songs greeted his every appearance. Chou En-lai personally showed him factories and bridges. After Russia, Sukarno had observed dubiously: "One can see the price of their achievement in the faces of their people." But here were Communists who smiled...