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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet success in Iraq demonstrates, the Communists often benefit even more than the Germans from Mideastern hatred for the "imperialist powers." Communist states are also prepared to underwrite prestigious but unprofitable deals. In Cairo last summer, when a West German firm desperately sought to win an electrical construction contract away from the East Germans, the East German representative impatiently burst out: "Gentlemen, let's stop this nonsense. I have orders from my home office to undercut any Western price-even if I have to go to practically zero...
There is a shortage of just about everything-guards, doctors, books, toilets. Morning visitors can see the basins of slimy water in which the prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What...
Despite more than a century of French rule, the Moslem women of Algeria had few privileges and fewer rights. Having promised to respect Moslem customs, the French blinked at the practice of marrying off twelve-year-old girls (the right of djebr), often to men they had never seen. In classic Koranic fashion, husbands could get rid of a wife simply by saying, "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you," or by tearing up the marriage papers ("breaking the cards," in Algerian slang). A woman had no legal rights over her children and could be cut off without...
What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...
...five days and nights, she came apart at the seams more often than an overloaded grocery bag. Apart from the day she pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...