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...enscribed with Cambodian letters , Which is guaranteed to protect the wearer "against all harm so long as he has faith in the magic jacket. Seven lucky possessors of these jackets in one of Bangkok's northern suburbs recently took advantage of their invulnerability to terrorize the neighborhood. A fortnight ago, some 50 of their fed-up neighbors took axes and dropped in on the seven to test their magic garments. Before the cops arrived three of the seven were dead. But a brisk demand for the red jackets continued. The dead men, everybody agreed, lacked faith...
Graceful Yielding. The ladies went out in the streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian government, the United Nations inquired, in effect, when the Haitians were going to get around to letting their women vote as full citizens...
...fortnight ago the Constitution claimed victory: it reached its quota first. But last week the Journal won out after all: it acquired the Constitution lock, stock & pachyderm, and merged the papers...
There still remained the delicate operation of putting the deal over in Cuba. Prío, mindful of the violent press campaign which almost wrecked his negotiations for a $100 million First Boston Corp. loan last year, planned to spring this one without advance notice. But last fortnight, before the cabinet was scheduled to act on it, the Cuban press bloc opened up on the Pawley deal...
...Enemy. The Russian navy, Sherman pointed out, is a "very powerful navy"-for Russia's special purposes. And it is growing. Fortnight ago the Russians announced the creation of a separate navy ministry under chunky Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev. His Soviet navy already has 270 submarines, many of the latest design. It is reportedly building its submarine force up to 1,000, and constructing three modern battleships, probably to be used as guided-missile ships...