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Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...
...press conferences, sat big, beefy State Department Press Officer Lincoln White. The Secretary wanted to get something off his chest-and what he had to say was almost as surprising to the press corps as a new shift in U.S. foreign policy. He wanted to apologize for having been rude...
When the Soviet people heard about our marriage advertisements, they were astonished that anyone could . . . offer himself in this manner. This was a capitalist practice . . ." Some of these capitalist ads, complained Rude Pravo, still got into the papers "veiled as advertisements asking for or offering to become a 'housekeeper...
...Rude Pravo also deplored marriage bureaus, "used on the one hand, by doctors, directors or rich pensioners (factory owners have lost their attraction) and on the other hand by women with suitable dowries or widows with furniture." These bureaus were still legal, but, as Rude Pravo put it, "we can't correct everything at once...
Outside the city, the quake shook down farmhouses and whole hamlets. Landslides wiped out roads, dammed streams and rivers. By nightfall tragic processions of Indians carrying rude coffins had formed on the roads outside Ambato. All along the way, other Indians with lighted candles kept vigil beside the dead for whom coffins had still to be made...