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...spite of the enforced turnout of Hanoi's 450,000 residents to sing and parade under the gaily colored streamers and lights hastily erected for the welcoming, it was a pretty dreary place that Sukarno had come to at the end of a two-month world tour. Once a well-ordered colonial city under French rule, Hanoi became a jittery, bordello-ridden citadel during the Indo-China war, but after five years of Communist rule has turned into a place where, says one frequent foreign visitor, "the only noise is the absence of noise. Nobody smiles. Not even...
Having told the Constituent Assembly what to do, Sukarno last April took off on a two-month round-the-world tour. He got an honorary degree in Communist Warsaw, saw a bullfight in Mexico City, by last week was happily roaming Los Angeles in a sky-blue uniform, kissing Joan Crawford, lecturing college professors at U.C.L.A. ("We have split the atom. We are going into space. We can control agriculture. We can control weather. We can control all save the evil hearts...
...many men were back at work that unemployment dropped sharply in 90% of the 149 major U.S. industrial areas during the two-month period ended in mid-May. Across the land, 33 employment areas were changed to better classifications on the Labor Department's list, and 14 were removed from the surplus-labor category altogether...
...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...
...north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...