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Voinovich's Kievstone cops approach seems anachronistic. But the jabs are rapid and effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kievstone Cops | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...meanwhile, charge that by accepting Communist "non-opposition," the Premier is providing the Communists with an opportunity to enter the government eventually. Andreotti has qualms about accepting support from the left under these circumstances, but, he says, "in order to come out of our economic crisis, it would be foolish not to utilize the parliamentary nonbelligerence of any political group that believes this government the only one possible." He adds, "In politics there is a clause that is always valid: rebus sic stantibus [circumstances being what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Andreotti: Rebus Sic Stantibus | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...RECENTLY RESOLVED Brown University library workers' strike, the arrest of eleven students who participated in a pro-strike demonstration last month, and the Brown administration's blind and foolish handling of the two problems have left scars on the Brown campus far deeper than those caused by the school's financial woes which set the ball rolling in the first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Aftermath | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Instead of breaking the bottles, kids can return them for cash, just as we once did years ago. Kids aren't foolish, not when there's good pocket money just lying on the ground. John Madama

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answering Question Six | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...dollar in the past year, is actually undervalued. Says the research director of one of London's biggest merchant banks: "The North Sea will give sterling holders plenty of reason for encouragement if the government can only convince them it won't fritter it away in foolish increases in public spending. Once that message gets across, I wouldn't be surprised to see sterling firm up immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Good News Amid the Gloom | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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