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Public complaints used to be crimes against the revolution-but today Cubans are permitted to gripe out loud...
...incorrigible booster who plugs for the preservation of "our outdoor heritage intact and unspoiled," Ainsworth has only one continuing gripe. His official beat excludes Los Angeles, and the city is growing so fast (current pop. 2,600,000) that his own territory keeps shrinking. "I'm losing ground all the time," he says, "and one of these days I may be crowded up against the Colorado River...
...gouged just for state income, the sport could be killed." Says a New York racing official: "If it's money they want from pari-mutuels, why don't they just run a bunch of mice around a track twelve months a year?" Even a few bettors gripe. Says one: "I don't care what the longer season does to horses. What does it do to humans? They're giving us too much opportunity to lose...
Last week came an angry gripe in Literaturnaya Gazeta from a Siberian housewife who demanded that Leningrad stop sending its prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire...
...have only one gripe. At two press conferences, the President has been allowed to laugh off charges of "managed news." Why are your correspondents not pinning him down with specific questions and forcing him to publicly face this issue...