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...Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist subversion with measures that are not in strictest conformity with democratic principles." U.S. citizens in Caracas, subjected to harassment and bombings in recent weeks, think this excess of scrupulosity helps explain Venezuela's poor security protection...
Kaleidoscopic Future. According to some psychiatrists, all three drugs are useful, but only if they are given in small doses under the strictest supervision. Then the drugs sometimes speed up psychotherapy by increasing insight, and LSD has been acclaimed as a trigger mechanism that enables many alcoholics to face the emotional bases of their addiction...
...these schools is often worth $2,000-3,000 a year. One big southern school made it a practice to give each player $50 each week for spending money in addition to his other benefits. These subsidies may not constitute professionalism in the strictest sense of the word, but they sure are close...
Most interesting new Ford was introduced not in the U.S. but in West Germany. It is the Taunus 12M, a German version of the mysterious Cardinal which Ford has been developing for two years in strictest secrecy, and once intended to begin making in the U.S. this year. (The plans were canceled last April after Ford decided that the U.S. small-car market was contracting.) The Taunus is 7 in. longer and considerably more commodious than the Volkswagen. It has front-wheel drive and a 50-h.p. V-4 engine that speeds the car to 78 m.p.h. Its price...
Even before the break with Khrushchev, internal security was the strictest in the world; since then it has become an obsession. Foreign visitors must fill out forms specifying the contents of their baggage down to the number of shirts, handkerchiefs and socks they are bringing into the country. Decent blankets are so rare that they must be listed separately under "valuables." So isolated are Albanians from the outside world that they are convinced that such restrictions are the normal practice everywhere...