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...cities so that they can keep the people informed in the event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which is equipped with a mixture of U.S. and Soviet weaponry, is on full alert. Troops, who have orders to shoot if fired upon, are digging into defense positions all along the 800-mile border that the Yugoslavs share with Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria...
...that the Soviets have effectively halted, at least for the present, Bonn's diplomatic and economic penetration into Eastern Europe, Ulbricht has cleverly seized upon West Germany's earlier permissive attitude to set up a new party. By so doing, he and his Soviet superiors have accomplished two important goals: they have 1) founded a new, hard-lining party in Western Europe at a time when the major Western European parties have split with Moscow over the Czechoslovak invasion, and 2) created an instrument for stirring up political strife in the Federal Republic...
Five years ago, such mildly risque lines would have been scissored by the censors. But today, a new try-anything spirit is upon the TV industry. The Smothers Brothers put the first dents in the censorship barrier early last season. Then Laugh-In crashed through and went about as far as it could go without being arrested. By the standards of movies, books, theater, or even late-night TV talk shows, Laugh-In's new blue cheer is decidedly inoffensive. Still, the program is only half kidding when it announces: "NBC brings you Laugh-In in a plain brown...
Citroën's share of the French auto market has skidded to 21% since 1965, when it held a peak 31%. Profits have vanished, despite 1967 sales of 500,000 cars worth $896 million. Piling trouble upon trouble, Citroën last year bought Berliet trucks, which has earnings problems of its own, and began tooling up for a medium-size car, still three years off, in cooperation with Germany's NSU. Early this year, having also started work on a fast, Maserati-powered touring car, Citroën went to the government for $60 million. Bercot...
...growing good of the world," George Eliot wrote in closing Middlemarch, her finest novel, "is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." It was not only the motto for her books but, as Haight convincingly shows, an accurate summary of her own hidden life...