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...find it hard to understand these signs we keep seeing that say 'Private Property.' As along the bank, where it says you cannot do fishing.-In our country we fish where we like. We have no private property." And there was something else: "Here only a narrow stratum of society can go in for rowing. It requires much money. This is not the case in our country. Just rank-and-file people, ordinary workers can do rowing in the Soviet Union." As regatta day neared, the Soviet's ordinary, working oarsmen stepped up their training. Russian binoculars...
...Father Russell is murdered. The jolly businessmen who laughed around his bridge table vanish into thin air-save for one who stays around long enough to pop the remains of Daddy's capital into his own pocket. By the end of the novel, Sylvia has sunk to a stratum from which death is the only escape, where crackers and condensed milk are deemed a nourishing meal and Good Hair is valued only because it is attractive to "dark" male customers...
Selecting a class of 250 girls with the qualities that Radcliffe wants is not easy. Now that the college is more than ever a national institution, It is essential that each class have members from every section of the country and from every economic stratum...
...York's Associate Superintendent Ethel F. Huggard boasts: "We teach everything. Anything you name, we teach somewhere." But in its attempt to "fill every cup, no matter how big or how small" with learning, the public schools have as yet failed to interest a great stratum of intelligent, but recalcitrant or lazy boys & girls. In what might be termed the era of the slob, young worshipers of the'television comic, the bookie and the comic-book monster can slip off into easy "general" courses and finish their school years with their minds practically ungrooved by thought...
Without ration cards for foodstuffs and some consumer goods, these Berliners must go without, or buy in the state-owned HO stores, where prices are exorbitant. The Communists insisted that their latest squeeze had been done at the request of "the broadest stratum of our society, the workers." The real explanation, however, could be found in a Communist admission last week that production of meat, milk, cereals and sugar has fallen "far behind the plan" in East Germany...