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Poster Prose. Nowhere is the student-worker rift so potentially embarrassing as in Communist "worker states" themselves, and last week, in Yugoslavia, the revolution gap appeared. It began in the now familiar Paris pattern, when police used water cannons and clubs to turn back Belgrade university students from an overcrowded pop concert; next day, some 2,000 students occupied the campus in downtown Belgrade. Also as usual, they advertised their grievances on signs and banners...
...during World War II. Displaying what one of his commanders called "foolish courage," Randolph volunteered for a commando raid hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa. Then in 1943, defying capture by the Germans, he slipped several times by boat and parachute into enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, where he served as his father's personal envoy to Marshal Tito's partisan bands-a service that made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the country's oft-awarded distinction for merit...
...swaying ever so gently. Later, he said: "Sometimes the keys elude your touch like fishes swimming away from under your fingers." What a sport! In a few days we are going to hear the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at the Ribat of Monastir, Tunisia. Then, while cruising to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, there will be a recital by the Amadeus Quartet and Jean-Pierre Rampal, the flutist. Then on to Catania, Naples and Cannes, where Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli will give a piano recital...
...this year. Rumania recently took the unprecedented step of placing a $24 million aircraft contract with a British firm instead of with the Russians. Now the Rumanians are even negotiating to join the Washington-based World Bank-the 107-nation lending organization of which no Communist country except Yugoslavia is a member...
Increasingly at liberty to speak their own minds, Czechoslovak newspaper and radio columnists fueled the scare. "For God's sake," a Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...