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Absence of Avocado. What few Westerners remarked in Eastern Europe, however, were the things that are understandably absent, or purposely hidden from view. Traffic is scant even on the main streets of a capital (Rumania's automobile population is a mere 10,000 among 19 million citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high...
...public corporation to raise investment capital at home. He aims to check inflationary land speculation, carry on large-scale road-construction projects, build new schools and hospitals, double teacher training, reform the fragmented housing program and-to help pay for it all-boost taxes. The only conspicuous initiative absent from his 85 points is an attempt to start a meaningful birth-control campaign, the one sure solution to the island's spiraling population...
...sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...
...Absent from at least the early part of the negotiations was DeGuglielmo. The success or failure of the talks may become apparent tonight at 7:30 p.m., when Mayor Hayes has called for another public session of the Council
...actors. But Morris Carnovsky in his two years of touring in Lear since the original Stratford, Connecticut triumph, has reinstated their good name. Carnovsky, now a Brandeis faculty member, has mounted a Lear at the Spingold Theatre which is endued with the high finish and control that was often absent in the hastily-arranged touring performances...