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Among its 18 dailies, dire poverty mingles with impressive wealth: the Cleveland Press expects to show a $2,000,000 profit this year, while in Columbus, just 140 miles away, the anemic Citizen-Journal must ration pencils to reporters. The chain has not one headquarters but three: in Washington. New York and Cincinnati. It speaks with a single voice from Washington on national and international matters, but encourages diversity on the local level. And while the typical newspaper chain strives to establish monopolies, Scripps-Howard tries to avoid them. In Memphis, the only city where a Scripps-Howard monopoly exists...
...Foot Chain. With a batch of 1,200 other prisoners, Chan was shipped into the mountains of northern Kwangtung to work twelve hours a day on a skimpy ration of rice. Within two months. 300 of the prisoners died. In this and two other camps, Chan was continually in trouble. After writing a poetic lament for his pre-Communist life, Chan was denounced before a mass meeting of other prisoners, beaten, and forced to stand and kneel and stand again for hours. In 1960, while on a rock removal detail, Chan complained to the authorities that "corrupt cadres" were stealing...
...such basic industries as mining and steel, give Moscow top priority for East German manufactures. East German food production has fallen sharply in the past twelve months. Potatoes, once a staple, have been imported from the uncollectivized farms of Communist Poland; last week meat and sausage went on the ration list, to join butter, which has been strictly allocated for 18 months. For complainers, there was the ever-present fear of a Communist jail cell or a Communist pistol...
Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
...vigorously assisted the heavenly host by nationalizing Roman Catholic schools, the Bank of Ceylon, transport services, life insurance and the Port of Colombo. Last week the Prime Minister touched off one of the biggest government crises since she took office by announcing a 25% cut in the rice ration. In yet another attempt to ease Ceylon's formidable economic woes, her government last April seized almost 200 gas stations and oil depots owned by a trio of U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell). Total value of expropriated properties: $20 million...