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...Communists' motives, the holiday pass agreement clearly proved most erosive on their own side of the Wall. To East Berliners, who had been chafing in the gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift-laden visitors seared like acid. West Berliners found their Eastern kin far more outspoken against the Ulbricht regime than they had been before the Wall went up. In fact, workers at East Berlin's municipal transport company, BVG, demanded that the pass agreement not only be extended but expanded to permit East Berliners to visit their relatives in the West...
Mephistopheles shows up, dressed almost exactly like Faustus, indicating to the slow-witted that good and evil are close kin. They plot to recover the ring -Mephistopheles wants Faustus to be vastly powerful; Faustus wants to prevent the ring from being used with disastrous results to mankind. For those who miss this one, the playbill features snapshots of nuclear explosions and sketches of old alchemy labs...
...nationalized company in 1955 from the remnants of a rundown private airline, PIA ran up heavy financial losses and a horrendous safety record until Field Marshal Ayub Khan, after coming to power in 1958, installed a Pakistan Air Force commodore as PIA's boss. Commodore Nur Khan (no kin) fired seven senior captains, enforced strict discipline and turned PIA into one of the few nationalized airlines that make a profit. Khan gets no government subsidy and brooks no government meddling, runs PIA with a maximum of free enterprise...
...Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even widespread suspicion that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow of a backbench Congress politician (no kin to the Mahatma), who has long been the Prime Minister's closest confidante (he calls her Indu, or Moon), official hostess and political troubleshooter...
...from a Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...