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...fact, Taylor himself suggested the Bundy trip. It has become customary for the ambassador to return to Washington for consultations every couple of months. But with South Viet Nam in its present chaotic condition, Taylor felt that he should stick to his post (the last time he left, last fortnight on a trip to Laos, another Saigon government was thrown out of office). The ambassador even sent to Washington a memorandum listing some 20 points that he hoped to discuss at length with Bundy; they ranged from whether Taylor should fly to Washington to brief Congress some time soon...
Command Economy. As the increasingly independent Eastern European satellites are opening up to the West, so they are boldly opening up their own internal economies to Western techniques. Fortnight ago, Czechoslovakia inaugurated a massive decentralization program drawn up by Prague Economics Professor Ota Sik. Except for general growth goals set by the state and controlled prices in some key sectors, each Czech factory will have wide freedom for its own development. East Germany, too, has relegated planning to groups of enterprises, freed the prices of some raw materials, is toying with profit incentives. Hungary has intro duced a form...
Doolies Blew the Whistle. Shortly before the post-Christmas exams, a still unidentified upperclassman stole a key to the locker where the tests were stored. He copied and returned them, then hired as salesmen ten cadets who earned 10% commissions on a sale price of about $10. Fortnight ago, two "doolies" (freshmen) discovered the ring, briefly pondered their obligations under the academy's honor code, then blew the whistle. Within days, the organizer, his sales force, and 18 other cadets-most of them football players-had been bounced from the academy. In Washington, Secretary of the Air Force Eugene...
...Violence. In answer, committee leaders argue that the churches must move with slow and special care if they are to influence their flocks at all. Perhaps, they can add, the committee's acts of good will have already begun to change the climate in the state. A fortnight ago, the president of the Mississippi Bankers Association, a Methodist, called on citizens "to obey the law, keep in step with the times." Last fall the Mississippi Baptist Convention appealed for an end to "injustices heaped upon Negroes...
...Billboard's chart of bestselling 45 r.p.m.s, a record called Married Man appeared a fortnight ago in 104th place, between Bewitched and Somewhere...