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Marx & Meany. Since the agenda skirted such practical labor matters as collective bargaining, the closed shop or overtime, the rafters rang for five days with inflamed speeches denouncing aggression in Cuba, the French in Algeria, French atomic tests in the Sahara-and, of course, colonialism, a subject that set the Ghana-Guinea radicals off in full cry against I.C.F.T.U. and its Western ties. Charging that I.C.F.T.U. was out to sabotage Africa's labor movement, not encourage it, they argued that any African union that joins the A.A.T.U.F. must cut all its ties with foreign labor groups...
Radio stations, guarded by machine guns, rang with martial music and the stern decrees of the new Korean leaders. All political parties were banned, and most of the Cabinet ministers in former Premier John Chang's government were clapped in jail. Nine elected provincial governors as well as the mayors of the big cities were ousted and replaced by soldiers. Seventeen prosecutors investigating corruption for the old regime were arrested and jailed. Strikes were banned, and the seven-day work week was now mandatory. Along with known Communists, thousands of liberals were jailed, and politicians nervously avoided their...
Some of the celebrations were silly, some were self-serving, but U.S. prestige and self-confidence had made a real gain. The free world rang with praise. Official Iron Curtain comments were contemptuous, but many Russians seemed privately pleased. U.S. newsmen at a Moscow reception were warmly congratulated by their Russian colleagues...
...proper and bourgeois that White Russian refugees from South America to Tyrone, Pa., recalling that Gagarin was the name of a princely family, felt free to claim Yuri as one of their own. But the suggestion that he was really a descendant of Russian nobility never quite rang true...
...City, Ariz., last week, the clear desert air rang with a mighty chorus of activity. Through its palm-lined streets wafted the strains of Stephen Foster melodies as the cast of the Sun City Minstrel Show rehearsed for its big night. Golfers played on a golf course that meanders through the community, and lawn bowlers practiced body English on the bowling green. The shuffleboard courts were jammed, and so was the community-center swimming pool. Ranged in some 40 different clubs, Sun City residents busily kept their hand in at everything from chess to stone cutting. And-for those...