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...broad masses of the people-95% of Pakistan-positively do not want a return to parliamentary democracy. If we can run a country without a party system, we shall be a happier people." Leaning forward intently in a wicker chair on the terrace of the President's House in East Pakistan, Pakistan Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan was discoursing on his favorite subject: the evils of politics...
That will climax seven days of feasting, since in Laos, death is thought to be a release, and a portent of happier times...
...customs, we think that if we. as a member of the Peace Corps, could have just one summer with them on the Riviera, we could teach them the American way, and by living with them and showing them how we do things back home, they would be a happier and more contented people...
...herself, Miss Gordimer--in non-professional life Mrs. Rein hold Cassirier--has the additional problem of coordinating marriage and career. "Constantly," she admits with disarming honesty, "I have trouble reconciling two roles which really don't go together. If you want to be a writer, it's very much happier and luckier to be a man." She qualifies her attitude, however, with the thoughtful comment that the "nervous tension" thus created "may be good for my work." The reader, finding in her stories a vividly rendered perception of the complex interplay of human relationships, may well be inclined to agree...
...laugh at his press conference when he said that a recent muscle-flexing interview given by Admiral Arleigh Burke had been given before inauguration day, and thus predated the Kennedy directive requiring such comments to be cleared by the White House. "This," said Kennedy, "makes me happier than ever that such a directive has gone out." To some Washington hands, the crack grated as a needless rasp for the Navy's capable chief, who was a distinguished combat commander when Jack Kennedy was learning to run PT boats...