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...Succession. "Our country lives in exciting days," proclaimed the party newspaper Pravda last week. All over Russia, from the smallest rayon (precinct) to the capitals of the 16 republics which make up the U.S.S.R., party bosses were picking delegates for the big event. Daily, the press ran stories about Stakhanovite workers doubling and tripling their output in honor of the forthcoming congress. Moscow's Hotel Metropole set aside its entire second floor for the incoming delegates. But, as usual, the preparations were for the most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which...
Grace knocks himself out. He works as much as 80 hours a week, shuttles back & forth between New York and Latin America about five times a year, has developed ulcers and a prodigious memory for even the smallest details about the Grace empire. He had his staff investigate some 500 different U.S. corporations before he decided to plunge into petrochemicals. Said Grace: "We think it's going to be the fastest-growing industry in the U.S. during the next ten years...
...annual Constitutional Day celebrations came Malaya's youngest potentate, who rules Malaya's smallest state, Perils (pop. 71,000), just over the Siamese border. The Raja of Perlis, a plump 31, met Riam, 27, fell deeply in love. Last May, Riam accepted the Raja's 15-carat diamond engagement ring and last month they were married...
...British imperialism. They have all the trappings of democracy but little of its spirit. Middle Eastern parliaments represent the ruling classes, but not the ruled; "public opinion" is manipulated, law courts too often protect the rich against the wretched; taxation is designed to promote the greatest happiness of the smallest number; the streets can riot but not rule...
...hamlet the people celebrated the new day of independence* with music, oratory, parades. In front of the Capitol in San Juan, oratory-loving Governor Luis Mufios Marin, the driving force in the making of the new constitution, looked up at the two banners flying together. "This emblem of the smallest country in the hemisphere alongside that of the U.S.," he said, "means that the two nations, as well as the two peoples, are of equal dignity...