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...cram courses of vital statistics about the area to cope with his barrage of queries. The ride in from the airport was legendary, and many a correspondent prepared himself by making the run a couple of times with a guide-only to have Harry ask him about some distant ruin he had failed to notice. It was even more disconcerting when Luce knew more than he did-as when TIME's New Delhi man told him that he had reservations at the Ashoka Hotel. "Ashoka?" pounced Luce, "that was an emperor wasn't it-what was his period...
...explain it to the National Supervisory Board when it met in Illinois for the 1966 summer congress. The NSB, naturally, found Wood incapable of doing his job, and decided he had to go. They did not want to simply fire him for incompetence, however, for they feared it would ruin his draft deferment and make it impossible for him to go to graduate school the following year...
...that Britain would have no major difficulty adjusting to the Market's higher agricultural prices, one of his ranking ministers-Board of Trade President Douglas Jay -was cutting the ground out from under him by declaring in London that entry to the Market might well mean economic ruin for Britain, beginning with a rise in food prices, which would climb 14%. The contrast did not serve to convince the Germans of British sincerity, which is already in doubt in certain quarters on the Continent...
...magnificent theme and by principals who act as if they were reading the daily yoghurt-production report on Radio Bucharest. Yet in the film's final scene, the question is put again with inquisitorial ferocity. Reunited with his wife at last, the hero finds her a middle-aged ruin, with skin like cracked mud and a rapist's baby in her arms. In her eyes he sees the wreck that horror and hardship have made of him. At that instant, a newsman arrives to take a picture of them. "Everybody smile!" the photographer hollers with a snarling cheeriness...
...newspapers would face ruin if they lost circulation the way leading Soviet dailies did last year. Izvestia, the government paper, was down 300,000 (to 7,500,000). Komsomolskaya Pravda, the journal of the Communist youth, was down 500,000 (to 6,300,000). Pravda, the official party mouthpiece, suffered the most spectacular drop of all; it was down 1,000,000 copies (to 6,000,000). But oddly enough, the decline is a healthy sign of sorts...