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...were unprepared for the responsibility, "overwhelmed by the unexpected vistas that had suddenly opened up before them." Beyond that, the Cohn-Bendits blame the established left: the Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom," as Communist Boss Waldeck Rochet described his organization, opted for a Popular Front government. By so doing...
...With the outbreak of World War II, the country-and the Post-took on a more serious air. Ben Hibbs, a former Kansas newspaperman and editor of Country Gentleman, who took over the Post in 1942, deployed a staff of crack war correspondents. He also changed the fiction-nonfiction ration from 70-30 to 30-70, shortened the articles, and struck a crisp, bright tone throughout. But when postwar American society and American journalism began changing, the Post was not so nimble as it needed...
...slot-machine business. Valachi also ran a numbers racket, a "classy horse room" in White Plains, N.Y., and a loan-shark operation. He bought his own race horses. During World War II, Valachi worked the gasoline black market, earning about $200,000 in three years from finagling with ration stamps. Even at that, he says, "I wasn't so big." After the war, he muscled into jukeboxes but also went respectable by sending his son to a private school and moving to suburban Yonkers. Then Valachi slipped...
...plan establishes a ration system for arrivals and departures per hour at airports and allots the bulk of such operations to scheduled commercial flights. At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where the pressure has been greatest, the FAA intends to allow a fixed number of 80 landings and takeoffs an hour. The allocation is based on instrument conditions; if the weather is suitable and visual-landing regulations prevail, more than the 80 will be permitted. Priority will be given to commercial airlines, with a small number of reservations split between air taxis and private airplanes...
...little food with them, and Czechoslovaks were in no mood to ease their hunger pangs. Grocers and restaurant operators consistently refused to sell or give them anything, and farmers hid their stock. At one point, the underground radio gleefully announced that the average Russian tank crew's daily ration consisted of "six potatoes and some fat." It is small wonder that, after sitting down to that kind of mess, one trio of noncoms decided to raid a grove of apple trees near downtown Prague. Unfortunately for their appetites, the trees happened to be growing behind the U.S. embassy...