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...little like a treasure hunt. At 6:30 p.m. one evening last week, the phone rang at Caracas' daily El Nacional. The caller's curious request: check the ashtray near the elevator on the second floor. At the same time, editors of La República were told to look in the trash can near the proofreaders' rest room. In both places were notes from the publicity-grabbing Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-Castro terrorist group that is trying to make things difficult for Venezuela's middle-reading President Rómulo Betancourt...
...were on hand to debate substantive issues in intelligible terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty, the Constitution, and traditional values. He invoked the name of nearly every major political folk hero but Lincoln, and stood firmly against the march of Communism. The clarion call rang in his ears as he praised peace, denounced Hitler and totalitarianism, and asked for Americans to "become awakened" to the "evil perils" of government encroachment...
Once again the streets of Teheran rang with angry shouts. Two thousand workers invaded the university campus to battle students. In the teeming bazaar, steel-helmeted police beat back religious leaders who were attempting a three-day strike. All the excitement was over the social reforms of Iran's 43-year-old king of kings, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. After years of hesitation, the Shah at last was tearing the land from Iran's feudal village owners and religious leaders, distributing it to the peasants, and forcing factory owners to give workers a 20% share of their profits...
...deterrent is in fact almost wholly dependent on Washington. There was a time when U.S. Presidents sought Britain's counsel-and even approval-before taking any major initiative in world affairs; in the Cuban crisis, the most perilous of the last few years, the celebrated Jack-Mac telephone rang just twice...
...most measures, U.S. business last week was good and getting better. Industrial production and personal income were running at alltime highs. From Commerce Department statisticians came news that December had been a record month for the nation's retailers, who rang up more than $20 billion in Christmas sales. Automakers, beaming over three straight months of record business that pushed 1962 car sales to the second highest level in history (see box), were working some plants on six-day overtime schedules in the expectation that 1963 will be very nearly as good as last year...