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...former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their favorite punishment for Tibetans caught practicing religious rites is to lock them in a room, tell them that "your God will supply you food," and abandon them...
...luxuriate in private. Inside our houses (try not to call them "homes") is where we let ourselves go with our art collections and our furniture and our closets crammed with Huntsman suits, Sulka shirts and Lock hats. It is also perfectly O.K. to amuse yourself with elec- tronic equipment. Nothing ordinary, of course. One of my friends says he uses a small computer to help him with his racing forms as well as with the stock market, and quite a few have closed-circuit television to communicate with the nursery and the servants' wing...
...million U.S.-Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds on schedule and has even fallen behind on interest payments due the two governments. And every week that the strike continues, the two countries lose $700,000 in lock fees and toll revenues...
...behind G.M. was Standard Oil (New Jersey). Sales under Chairman Michael Haider (TIME cover, Dec. 29, 1967) were $13.3 billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford's. Two other corporations among the top ten also moved up. IBM, with sales of $5.3 billion and a lock on the biggest part of the world's computer sales, climbed from ninth place to seventh. Gulf Oil, with sales of $4.2 billion, moved from tenth to ninth...
...state investors, who account for 70% of the New York Stock Exchange's $130 billion annual business. Warning that any increase would be "misguided, shortsighted and self-defeating," the Big Board dropped plans to build a new $80 million headquarters in Manhattan, threatened to move lock, stock and trading booths out of the state...