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Thomas Jefferson's fine old University of Virginia is a state-run institution, but it has long maintained the flavor of a small, exclusive private college. Traditionally, it has drawn more big wheels from prep schools than public schools, has been the happy hunting ground for sons of the F.F.V.s (First Families of Virginia) and members of the F.F.U. (First Fraternities of the University). But in recent years the gentleman's-club tradition has found itself challenged by a serious-minded administration and by a more down-to-earth sector of the student body. Last spring the campus...
...Soviet-controlled Germany, the Communists also retreated a little before creeping Westernisms. On sale now in state-run stores in Stralsund: a soft drink called "Cofa-Cola...
This week Dictator Franco's sindicatos, state-appointed bosses of the state-run "trade unions," were converging on Bilbao to halt the spreading unrest. "These poor fellows are not to blame," said one of the bosses. "There are some very delicate angles. The French say cherchez la femme. Here in Spain we might say cherchez...
...billion francs (close to $15 million) for the five-year reconstruction job. The government would only promise 365 million francs a year, so Cornu turned fund-raiser himself. Soon the money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came in from benefit dances, music festivals, theater performances and house-to-house canvases. Everybody contributed, from the Bank of France (10 million francs...
...devaluation was one more indication that Communist Marshal Tito, while still revering Das Kapital as a Bible, is not using it as his only economics textbook. The Tito regime has recently loosened the government's rigid control over the Yugoslav economy, putting many state-run enterprises on a profit & loss basis...