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Like most of the underground writing that finds its way out of the Soviet Union, the book has already circulated at home. Soviet intellectuals pass around unpublished manuscripts like chain letters, copy by hand or mimeograph the manuscripts lent them. In the case of Cancer Ward, ironically, that chore was performed by the state publishing house, which set type and ran off proofs of the book while it was still scheduled for official publication last December. At the last moment, government censors balked at Solzhenitsyn's bitter indictment. By that time, however, as Soviet Novelist Venyamin Kaverin revealed recently...
...Kennedy told De Gaulle that he had good reason to believe that Soviet spies had penetrated the highest echelons of French government - perhaps even the Cabinet - and offered to let De Gaulle's representatives interview his source for themselves. The French counterintelligence agency, SDECE, conducted an investigation that lent substantial credence to the Kennedy contention-but somewhere along the line the investigation was called off and the matter dropped. This week the case comes to light again in the pages of LIFE, where Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli, the former chief of French intelligence in the U.S., tells a remarkable...
...million worth of foreclosed property in 1966 and 1967 at a loss of nearly $11 million. They still have $46 million more of foreclosed property on their books. To keep the capital reserves of the subsidiaries at the required level, Lytton borrowed through his holding company and lent them the money. Even so, those reserves last year fell close to the 5% called for by law. At that point, state and federal authorities forced Lytton to hand over $45 million of savings accounts (along with an equal amount of loans with good repayment records) to two competitor...
...marched across the Charles River, and one shouted: "It's V-J day?victory over Johnson!" Outside the White House, a group of youths unfurled a banner reading THANKS, L.B.J. In Kansas City, a photographer wrote: "Congratulations. It was the best thing you could possibly have given up for Lent." Of a record 20,000 letters and telegrams that poured into the White House, however, all but a few congratulated the President for a magnanimous action...
...source of doubt lies in statistics that concern the average American little, but worry bankers, oil sheiks, speculators and most foreign governments profoundly. In 17 of the past 18 years, the U.ST has spent, lent or given away more money than it has taken in from abroad. Compared with the size of the U.S. economy (larger than all of Europe's), that balance of payments deficit seems trivial; it has averaged a mere 0.004% of the gross national product. But the dollars thus placed in foreign hands now total $34 billion, while the U.S. stock of gold has dwindled...