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...Sore Points. The bill of grievances is long. Almost all land expropriated from big landlords under the 1952 land-reform program has been returned and the peasant occupants dispossessed. Trade unions, smashed in the revolution, have been allowed only a slight comeback. A dozen police organizations use third-degree methods with as much gusto as the Communists ever did. Old-fashioned banana-republic corruption taints the government clear...
Cyprus is a sore subject involving three presumably friendly nations, and two of them have long since made their views noisily plain. Last week came word from the third nation: Turkey...
There are today at least eight feasible techniques for generating reactor heat convertible into electricity, e.g., pressurized water, sodium-graphite, boiling water, fast breeder. Britain, in sore need of power, is concentrating on one proved but cumbersome method (using a gas coolant), which is fast becoming obsolescent; Russia plans seven reactors; the U.S.. however, is actively planning to build and operate all eight types, in addition is considering at least two others. This means that the U.S. will lag in actual atomic-power output; it should also mean that the U.S. will emerge with the best method. A recent...
High Prestige. Scanning his Administration's efforts, Ike found them fruitful. War in Korea and Communist engulfment of Viet Nam had been halted. Trieste was eliminated "as a sore spot." In Iran "at least the beginning" of a settlement had been achieved. Moreover, "we have not been drawn into the position of being so completely on one side of a quarrel . . . that we are incapable of carrying out our proper role of mediator, conciliator and friend of both sides . . ." In a voice pitched for Democratic ears, the President said: "Certainly the prestige of the U.S. since the last world...
...weighed myself on a penny machine and found I weighed 205," recalls Leverone. "Another machine said 98. A chocolate machine gave me nothing, not even my penny back. Out of a peanut machine I got six moldy objects I wouldn't feed to a goat." Businessman Leverone got sore enough to go to work to teach the vending-machine business a lesson in honesty-and see if it would not also prove profitable. With $60,000 he founded Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Last week Automatic Canteen, unchallenged leader of a booming $1.7 billion industry, counted record sales...