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...Chinese exhibit in Moscow; he was also No. 3 in the communique announcing new Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...
Nevertheless, in one sense it is true that women are not getting their money's worth in clothes. Reason: by the standards of other industries, the garment industry is woefully inefficient. Hand-operated machines are the rule; mass production, as known in other industries, is almost unheard of. Competition is cutthroat; some 5,000 companies are locked in the battle to clothe the female form, and hundreds of them fail every year. Many of them are fly-by-nights riding a sudden fashion craze...
...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...
...first week of U.S. showings, A Queen Is Crowned began making unheard-of box-office records. In Manhattan, the little (450 seats) Guild Theater opened with six shows a day, hastily raised it to nine when waiting lines strung out around the block. In five days with the film, Boston's Exeter Theater drew in twice as many patrons as usual. In Richmond, the Capitol's business was four times bigger than normal in one day; the Pix in White Plains, N.Y. did three times its average business...
...other Argentines caught in Perón's latest roundup of political opponents, was Alfredo Palacios, 72, mustachioed ex-dean of the University of Buenos Aires' law school, grand old man of Argentine socialism, veteran of 70 duels. Also in jail: ex-Senator Nicolas Repetto, 81. "Unheard of!" barked Palacios to a fellow inmate as he tramped across the patio of Buenos Aires' 23rd precinct station during the prisoners' exercise period. "Under arrest without charges! There is no more respect for old age and venerability...