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Since last summer, Nasser has turned Egypt into perhaps the most thoroughly nationalized state outside the Communist bloc. In a series of sweeping decrees, he has taken over almost all major or middle-sized factories, stores, virtually outlawed annual earnings higher than $15,000, limited landowners to a scant 100 acres. Warned Nasser: "Socialism is an endless road, and nobody knows how far it will be necessary to travel along it." On that endless road last week, Dictator Nasser planted some new, ominous signposts pointing toward even tighter one-man rule...
Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...
Even after World War II, Moscow had such scant respect for the Chinese Communists that they dismantled $2 billion worth of Manchurian industry, reassembled it in Soviet territory. And in straight trade deals with the new rulers of the Chinese mainland, the Russians forced their comrades to pay top prices for Soviet and satellite products, ranging from trucks to saccharin, when the same Western-made goods were available in Hong Kong at a fraction of the cost...
...conservation of energy, says Jones. He believes that the organizational problems of the space age must be solved by a similar key-conservation of resources. And he cheers the Pentagon's new-found concern with fewer, multiple-purpose weapons and space devices. A sharp increase in the scant 40% of aerospace contracts now let through competitive bidding would, he contends, help remind both the military and the industry that money, too, is a resource to be conserved. Says he: "It is completely out of gear to say that a scientist strives for the best regardless of cost...
...perhaps a very excellent one: there is little doubt that the great philosophies of the East can ease the paramount difficulties of the West. It is only unfortunate that Mr. Koestler believed he could gain an understanding of two of the world's oldest extant cultures in the scant two years he allocated for his studies...