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...Elisabethville, the flame trees were out in glorious profusion alongside the spacious swimming pools of the Union Miniére officials, whose mines and refineries were working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing out his enemies...
Once he has a foothold in a business firm, the born S-Man learns to organize. This will enable him "to blame others for his own mistakes." The S-Man always has inside stories. He always knows "who is sleeping with whom. Inside every large onion, innumerable smaller and inner onions are waiting to be revealed. You are the prophet of the inner onion." The best road to the top "is often a zigzag-from one competitor to another and back again. Never be ashamed of rejoining your old firm if the salary is right: what a pleasure...
...they can do better, the Russians announced plans for building a glass-walled annex to Moscow's 100-year-old National Hotel on Gorky Street, long considered by visitors to be one of Russia's poor best. This was just the beginning. Scheduled to rise beside the onion domes and red walls of the Kremlin is a huge, twelve-story block surmounted by a 20-story tower which, say the Russians, will be the largest hotel in Europe. It will contain 3,400 air-conditioned rooms, four lobbies, two cinemas, a concert hall, a shopping center...
Somewhere amid the onion domes of Moscow last week the leaders of 80-odd Communist parties from all over the world were apparently locked in titanic struggle. After two solid weeks of argument, the supreme junta of world Communism was still threshing out the grand party line. Either way, it still meant to sweep the world, but Mao Tse-tung was arguing for more militancy and bellicosity than Nikita Khrushchev thinks necessary...
...women that suffer from frigidity need a mere improvement in their daily diet, such as curry powder, oregano, paprika, onions (not onion salt), black pepper and much garlic accompanied by beer. This frigidity coma is nonsense in South America, Mexico and all of the Asian nations because of much spices...