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...move from the ranks of the common people to the dizzying heights of the imperial throne. But it is a deceptive example. Ever since the peerage was abolished, wealthy industrialist families like the Shodas have become the new peers of Japan, and their daughters are princesses of the realm in everything but the name...
Fidel Castro is plainly convinced that in the realm of definitive justice, nothing beats a firing squad-even if Cuba's constitution forbids capital punishment. Last week he announced that his government would draft a new law demanding firing-squad executions for embezzlers of government money...
...handling service "at cost" to the Defense Department to handle claims for servicemen's dependents in 17 states. Last year Mutual processed more than 125,000 such claims for an average cost of $1.20 apiece. Says Skutt: "Many in business criticize the Government because it gets into the realm of private enterprise. Then when the Government asks business to take over, they are busy looking out the window...
...greater and more memorable part of the concert, however, was dedicated to the technically more legitimate folk-song. In this realm, and particularly in several blues numbers, Bill demonstrated some fine guitar playing. For good measure, he included some calypso songs complete with audience participation ("ooonh!"). He has a pleasant voice, but it was rather overshadowed by Miss Baez's in several of their duets. Her legitimate folksongs were as exciting as her illegitimate songs were funny. Without trying to define just what it is that makes a folksinger better than the usual, finer than professional, suffice...
...only sensible alternative is to reject the Soviets' "economic war," and to remove the assistance to underdeveloped countries from the realm of Cold War competition. Economic development in the "uncommitteed areas" is in itself a reasonable goal for American policy...