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...Angeles has been struggling for years against smog and a stigma of cultural inferiority. Only the smog remains. As a vote of confidence, Producer David Merrick will launch the long-awaited British musical Oliver at the Philharmonic Auditorium in August. And this year Playbill, which prints all Broadway programs, started a Los Angeles edition...
...neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer. 27, showed a collection of attractive dresses, suits and beachwear that were "an effort to follow Paris lines but adapt them to Czech fabrics...
...Appealing to voters disenchanted by Macmillan's crackdown on credit and pay raises, the Liberals run on a platform resembling Labor's (main difference : the Liberals do not favor nationalization of industry). They are unencumbered by the Labor Party's internal feuds and by the proletarian stigma that keeps many middle-class voters from going Labor. Sniffed Macmillan: "The Liberal Party is performing the valuable function of the exhaust pipe in the motorcar...
...Latin Americans still use Grace-made sugar, wear clothing made from Grace textiles, and fly on planes of Panagra Airways (jointly owned with Pan American). By taking an active role in the community life-but not the politics-of the nations where it operates, Grace has largely overcome the stigma of "Yankee imperialism" and is so little concerned about expropriation that it plans to spend $5,000,000 this year expanding its Latin American operations. Even in its traditional stamping ground, however, the company's new look is evident. Already Grace has chemical plants producing in six Latin countries...
...next month's vote for the presidency. The Conservative Party decided not to run its own presidential candidate, but pledged to remain in the fight for parliamentary general elections in February. Kekkonen's principal support was thus reduced to his own Agrarian Party and the Communists-a stigma he has been trying hard to avoid...