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...inauguration speech, Betancourt promised that no Communists would be allowed in his government. He held the military to 10% of Venezuela's budget, yet still managed to buy new arms and jet trainers. Officers were promoted on merit, not a dictator's whim. Military personnel were extended easy credit for off-post housing. On trips to the backlands, Betancourt called first on local garrisons. He visited army engineers on remote road-building projects, dropped in for Christmas caroling with the troops, and always had time for a little brass polishing at regimental anniversary celebrations...
...Whim Creek. The White Australia policy is often carried to absurd, esoteric extremes. Recently, five Japanese technicians employed by a Japanese-controlled mining concern-at, of all places, Whim Creek in Western Australia-were convicted of violating an obscure 1904 law specifying that "no Asiatic or African alien shall be employed in any capacity whatever in or about any mine claim." As a result, Western Australia's state legislature last week repealed the law, but virtually negated its action by adopting an amendment specifying that Asians must still get government permits to work in the mines...
...British bank and enable them jointly to exploit new opportunities on the Continent if and when Britain joins the Common Market. The sums involved are large, but in the contemporary world of great industrial consortiums, Rothschild money is no longer indispensable and controlling; cabinets no longer fall at their whim...
Until the bloody November coup in South Viet Nam, Saigon's daily newspapers existed entirely on palace whim. It was an iron whim. During his last three years in office, President Diem revoked the licenses of a dozen papers that, for one reason or another, had offended the presidential sensibilities. But where the Diem regime concentrated on whipping the press into line, the new junta government seems eager to flood the country with newspapers. Last week 44 dailies were publishing in Saigon-and the government has received 126 other license applications...
...unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than the Grand Turk. He commanded...