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...closed 27% of the U.S. covers a lot of ground: four states, 865 counties, and such unlikely places as North Dakota's Billings County (at last count 380 farms, one general store, one gas station, no military installations and no industry-defense or otherwise). All of New York City was left open except Brooklyn, which was closed. "Brooklyn," said a man at the Turf Club bar on Flatbush Avenue, "is a very strategic place...
Spreading Revolt. What is not so visible in Djakarta by day can be clearly seen at night: the government's failure to establish that essential of true independence - law and order. From sunset to sunrise, the banking center, all the great commercial godowns and the store houses are cordoned off by troops to prevent looting in the heart of the nation's capital. "Small wonder the army can't suppress the terrorists in the country side," said an acidly. "The bandits in the capital itself don't give them any free time...
...Japan pulled wooden shutters over store fronts and quit offices to celebrate Osho Gatsu, the Japanese New Year. For five days virtually all work stopped while millions of Japanese slipped back into kimonos, and women spent painful hours at their beauty shops getting their hair pulled and greased in the old-fashioned style, now worn mostly by geisha girls. Although Japanese have celebrated Osho Gatsu for centuries, never since the war have so many poured out to the ancient Shinto shrines...
Guatemala's deposed President Jacobo Arbenz arrived last week with his family at Zermatt, five miles from Switzerland's Matterhorn, and announced that he was negotiating for recognition of his Swiss citizenship. His father operated a drug-store in the village of Andelfingen until he left for Guatemala in 1899, and was indisputably Swiss. Under the laws of the little democracy, no descendant of a Swiss loses his right to citizenship unless he specifically renounces it - not even foreign Presidents.* Once he gets his Swiss passport, Arbenz will be able to bounce freely around the world, something that...
...expanded, the Association holds with an almost rigid fanaticism to its original princpiles. Publicity is shunned. Entrance requirements are so rigorous that it is questionable whether anyone at all could now pass scrutiny of the members. And every year the group returns ritually to Cape Cod, laying by a store of precious kobus for the barren winter months in New York. Once gathered, the roots undergo a minute screening, for the Association prides inself on its phenomenally low production: in four years the whole group has made only twenty finished kobus and some of these are pocket sized...