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Albania is the tiniest (pop. 1,500,000), the poorest, and most backward of all Communist satellites in Europe, and the only one that has no common border with another state in the U.S.S.R.'s empire. It is thus the one part of the empire that...
Khrushchev's bare-faced whopper: in his last days, chatting with Mikoyan, Dulles had reversed his policy and accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...
...Either a misunderstanding or a deliberate distortion," retorted the State Department...
...Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon of the welfare state: equality of opportunity had eased the economic tensions in Marx-proclaimed "class conflict," but it had led to a sharp increase in what the sociologists call "status conflict"-in other words, snobbism...