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...pneumonia and pleurisy contracted at Stalin's funeral) was to be moved from his mausoleum. But visiting Prague last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Ball discovered no change. Gottwald, face serene, skin unlined, waxen hands folded peacefully, still lay in his glass case amid Byzantine, marbled gloom...
...expressed no gloom, however, about the publication's current popularity and reputation. Despite the irregularity of the publishing this year, "We are now in the midst of an excellent competition, and we have just elected three freshmen who have never soon a regular issue of the Advocate...
...there is little of death or destruction in his work, and if he ever knew despair, he never showed it. Léger so reveled in form and color that it was as if he had lived in a world without a single shadow or a moment of gloom. Other men have painted with more passion, few with more exuberance...
...left-hand pages are devoted to government news, those on the right (naturally) to private news. All pages are equally badly dummied, and most of the news is badly presented and of little consequence. Stories range from the "World Roundup," which in a recent number was entitled, "Unrest, Gloom Persist in Most Global Hotspots," to the minutiae of "This Spinning World." One "Spinning World" item in the same issue said, "South African milk producers are planning a major shift in packaging, from bottles to plastic bags...
Buyer's Market. Tough-minded Konosuke Matsushita will have none of the gloom boom. Any stumble in the Japanese economy, he declares confidently, will only help Matsushita Electric. Says he: "In a declining situation, you get a buyer's market. The customer becomes more selective and looks for better quality. That's when the good companies make themselves felt." More important, Matsushita remains confident that, given a modicum of good management, the continued growth of Japan's economy is assured. He has long criticized Premier Ikeda's heady "double the income" talk as a stimulus...