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...free of the planners than No. 9's manage, Y. S. Taraskin, who in 1964 had been buffeted by no fewer than 30 changes in target figures, 17 revisions of cost estimates, and 13 switches in his budget allotments as decreed by central planners. Taraskin is a happier man today, for Izvestia announced a spectacular first-quarter for No. 9 under Libermanism. Daily coal production soared to 2,041 tons, a 33% increase over the expected 1,520 tons. Earnings rose, wage costs were reduced even as workers got bigger bonuses out of their one-half share in profits...
...much happier vein, the Associated Press reported that Miss Albright had "captured the affections of even the most akeptical Harvard men." Stephen W. Simpson. Chairman of the Dunster House Committee, said that despite the bills, "We wish she'd come back soon...
Died. Albert Cardinal Meyer, 62, spiritual leader of Chicago's 2,300,000 Roman Catholics, largest U.S. archdiocese, a vigorous leader who upon donning the red hat in 1959 confided, "I am happy for myself, but I am even happier for the people of Chicago," banned parish bingo, renovated dilapidated schools (15 days after he took over as archbishop in 1958, 87 children and three nuns died in a school blaze), racially integrated the parochial school system, declaring, "The glory of Christ demands it"; of cancer; in Chicago...
...praise for the regime, for which my pencil lay in wait, did not appear. There was only a soft mention of how the Chinese have become happier and more well-fed since the Revolution. I waited for the army to march proudly through Peking's "Red-Square," but they never came. The movie was thwarting my every move into complacency, and the photography and color began to penetrate...
...Enjoy That." Hubert himself is the most gruntled of men, and he even manages to make a joke about all the talk. "There is," he quips, "less to this than meets the eye." Indeed he insists that he has never been happier, worked harder, or been given greater responsibilities...