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...inner compound, surrounded by 6-ft.-high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East...
...trouble with Communism, as many a disgruntled Polish diner-out can testify, may be studied at close range in any state-run restaurant. When signaled, a Polish waiter turns his back. When plucked by the sleeve as he saunters by, the waiter snaps, "Kolega," meaning it is not his table. Menus sometimes are elaborate and evocative, but when asked to serve some dish other than fried pork and overboiled cabbage, the waiter answers: "Niema" (There...
...Italy's new Premier Amintore Fanfani pushes through all the state-run housing programs, education schemes, tax crackdowns and corruption cleanups that he has promised, all of them added together probably will not shock Romans as much as one fearless request issued by the Premier in his first week in office. The request: all Cabinet members and their staffs should begin work at 8:30 a.m., and lunchtime siestas should be cut to 2½ hours...
...State governments work through such a bewildering variety of finance systems -mostly vintage masterpieces of political patchwork-that the U.S. Census Bureau needs about eleven months to reckon a firm figure for the actual money spent by all states in any given year. Last week Census popped up with its tally on spending by states for fiscal 1957: a record $21,084,666,000, up 12% in the same year that federal expenditures (including state-run federal-aid programs) climbed only 4%. Since fiscal 1946, when legislatures set to work on the backlogged needs for schools and roads, hundreds...
Shaking the money tree harder than ever, U.S. colleges and universities are carting off a rich harvest of gifts. The 1956-57 take: $832,937,123, received by 910 private and state-run schools. In 1954-55, according to a survey released this week by the American Alumni Council, the American College Public Relations Association, and the Council for Financial Aid to Education. 728 four-year institutions surveyed reported gifts of only $336,030,106. Increase within three years for the 553 private colleges and universities taking part in both surveys...