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...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 of profit sharing, and in a deviation from Marxist ideology unique in the bloc, has imposed an interest rate of 5% on capital. To push exports, Poland has permitted three firms...
...that in gradual stages the new system would be spread throughout the whole of the consumer-goods industry. Last month the first 400 clothing and shoe firms scattered across Russia were authorized for the changeover-together, significantly, with 78 of their raw-material suppliers, who also had to be freed from the restrictions of the planners if the Kremlin really meant business in the reforms. Kosygin went even farther, asserting that eventually the reforms would be extended to all of Soviet industry...
...year nearly half the high school students studying physics are learning by discovery; one-third of the chemistry students and one-fourth of the biology students are taking completely revamped courses. Along with the curriculum changes came a new technology -programmed instruction, audio-visual equipment, classroom television, computers-which freed schools from the idea that one teacher standing before a class of 30 children was the ideal form of instruction...
Died. Alan Freed, 43, big daddy of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, making as much as $200,000 a year on radio and TV until he was caught accepting some $30,000 in record-company payola in 1959, got a six months' suspended sentence and faded from earshot; of uremia; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...master and is torn to pieces by Chinese bloodhounds. In despair, the heroine flees by a sort of Underground Railway known as "The Mole's Way." To her astonishment, she discovers that a civil war is raging in China; at the end of it, all the slaves are freed...