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...Southeast Asia, ferryboat operators accept dog-eared copies of a magazine called Free World in lieu of money. In Laos, wandering minstrels roam through villages to sing the sad story of how the Communists would ruin the country if they took over. In the new African nations of Somalia and Togo, legislators are lining up for English classes. Around the world, 2,700 newspapers in 86 countries with a total circulation of 100 million are carrying a comic strip named Visit to America, which relates the adventures of a young Asian journeying about...
...Moon-Smeared Seas. The world he paints is as private as the life he leads. Ghostly boats sail his moon-smeared seas, and kindergarten monsters roam his curious landscapes (see color). These, says Pedersen, are "fairytale pictures," and like all fairy tales, they have a touch of sorcery. Pedersen has never broken faith with childhood; basically he is an unspoiled innocent whose paintings sometimes have the quality of folk art, and almost always have the atmosphere of the nursery. The most ordinary everyday experience catapults him into fantasy. "To make a painting," he explains, "is a process by which...
...make up for the loss. He inaugurated a huge, brand-new, Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor camps. Soviet newspapers covered Stalin's move with identical four-line reports buried on the back page...
Sound trucks heralding the merits of individual candidates and attacking or defending PR continued to roam the streets. For the third or fourth consecutive day, drivers in the Vellucci motorcade leaned on their horns. Neon lights in the rear windows of several cars kept on blinking for Councilor Walter J. Sullivan...
...Packs. Scarcely 50 years ago, civilized Americans thought of children as belonging to one of two classes: those with families and those without. The neglected and orphaned were hauled off to Dickensian institutions to live in lockstepped desperation; and when the orphanages were filled, the rest were left to roam the cities in vagrant packs or were rounded up and shipped to agricultural communities to be palmed off on farmers in need of kitchen and field help...