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...misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand shrunk like a fried bacon strip. America had become a dinosaur with huge tail and tiny head. Our natural hostility to "the others," says he, ballooned into a drive to "kill the bastards and co-exist with ourselves...
...tail gunner in the R.A.F. in World War II who was shot down over Nazi Germany in 1943 and imprisoned, may I say that I would rather have a bellyful of nonlethal gas than a bellyful of lead any time! Let us hope that this is mankind's first step toward war that does not kill...
With automobiles and yachts, ski weekends and Caribbean vacations, Americans spend more of their income (10%) on transportation than any other people. This $50-billion-a-year penchant for going places has created a healthy tail wind for the nation's airlines, which last year ticketed more passengers, carried more freight and made more money than ever before...
...next became bold enough to make overtures to the West. Without waiting for the Soviets, he expanded Galati by signing a $42 million contract for a steel plant with a British-French combine. The Sino-Soviet split gave Dej another chance to twist the bear's tail. Rumania's Premier Ion Maurer winged off to Peking last year and agreed to boost trade with the Chinese Communists by 10% . He stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back and kindly volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed...
Perilous Balance. As might be expected in such a country, New Zealand has problems, and solutions cannot be put off until tomorrow. One big problem is a dog-chasing-tail economy: with little industry of its own, the country depends heavily on exports of its butter, beef, mutton and wool to balance the steady flow of imports that its people need. The balance has become so perilous that New Zealand has decided to make some major changes in its economy. Last week the government approved the creation of a native steel industry that will refine ore from New Zealand...