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Then he went to Washington, a more spacious classroom. Journalists, lawyers, and Presidents learned to read with care and trepidation the lengthy, percise black-ink memoranda he signed "F. F." and sent off in reams daily. His illness left the fine hand uneven, and made the writing a torture, but the notes still came, and they still were read, shuddered at, and cherished...
...Communists mounted demonstrations outside U.S. embassies from Moscow to Montevideo. At Moscow University, a bulletin-board notice cordially invited students of all nationalities to the bash. Some 2,000 accepted, marched ten abreast to the iron gates of the nine-story U.S. embassy, pelted it with ice, bricks, ink bottles, and chunks of coal from a truck that was conveniently stalled a few doors down the street...
Under the benign eyes of hundreds of Russian cops, the "students" spattered the embassy's yellow pastel facade with ink, smashed 202 windows. By way of contrast, when 400 American students later picketed the Soviet embassy in Washington in orderly fashion, police kept them 1½ blocks away from the building...
...speaking Madras state, where five people have burned themselves to death in protest, a mob captured two policemen and burned them alive. In Malayalam-speaking Kerala state, mobs attacked post offices and trains, and students signed pledges of resistance to the "imposition of Hindi," using their own blood as ink. State elections are scheduled for next month in Kerala, and the sudden emergence of the Hindi issue seems likely to hand victory back to the Communists, who ruled Kerala from...
...Argentines last week estimated their government budget deficit for 1965 at $860 million-and that was just an optimistic guess. The actual deficit, say economists, is likely to be closer to $1 billion. Moreover, better than half of the red ink flows from a handful of state-owned enterprises that seem to succeed only in costing the country money. The state oil monopoly, Y.P.F., is expected to lose $120 million this year; millions more go for the state-run airline and merchant fleets...