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...irrigation program, and 148 new rural schools. To shore up food production and boost rural living standards (most Venezuelan peons get about 1,200 calories a day), he pinned his hopes on mechanization. The U.S. State Department backed this program by putting Venezuela high on the Latin delivery list, right after Mexico and Brazil. This week a four-man commission prepared to leave for the U.S. to buy $120,000.000 worth of farm and industrial machinery. With the hemisphere's tidiest budget surplus, Venezuela would pay cash...
Your caption writer inaptly labeled your front page "Britons never shall be robots;" he's evidently out of touch with Britain. This country is being tied hand & foot by a mass of incoherent legislation, miles of red tape, and a never-ending stream of forms. You list Labor's so-called achievements-take a look at the other side of the picture. For the first time in our history we have bread rationing; conditions are worse than in wartime; you can't buy a new pane of glass or paint for your porch without filling...
Election regulations specify that each party or organization can put up its own candidate list only in communities where it has a local organization. The favored SED has been able to establish organizations in most communities. The other two parties lag far behind. The SED people have little difficulty getting automobiles and gasoline. Other parties are largely immobile. In Saxony, the SED was recently allotted 30,000 liters of gasoline, the LDP 100 liters...
Officially all parties must obtain permission of the local German authorities or Russian commander to hold meetings; speakers and speeches must be approved by the Russians. The interminable list of SED rallies indicates that the party has little trouble obtaining permits. Other parties, as one discouraged CDU leader put it, "run into endless chicanery." He added: "It has developed into quite a set pattern. We plan a meeting and tentatively reserve a hall. We submit application for the meeting, but days and sometimes weeks elapse. By the time we receive the approval our hall has been taken by somebody else...
...Godfrey began just "to reach that guy." He was the first man to ridicule his commercials-and sponsors. They threw fits until sales boomed. From there out, Godfrey never wanted for a sponsor. For his morning programs he now has a round 88, plus a good-sized waiting list...