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...enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus creating the danger of "Hungarian tragedies." He accused the young hotheads in the vanguard of Gomulka's national movement of "cheerfully blowing up the very bases of our ideology...
Revisionists were unwilling to fight Gomulka because most of them sensed that he was acting to impose needed discipline on his confused party. Many young men had carried on as if Poland were about to become a bourgeois democracy forthwith, when it was obvious that the Russians were still watching and calculating every move in Poland. But there were deeper murmurs of discontent when Gomulka began replacing revisionists with sectarians in his government...
AIRLINE SUBSIDY END is in sight for domestic trunk lines for the first time in U.S. commercial aviation history. Last big subsidized line, Northeast Airlines, has been requested by the CAB to show cause why its $1,800,000 annual subsidy should not be stopped forthwith...
Coming to power last October on a wave of popular resentment against the Soviet Union, Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka had been forced to promise that the postponed Polish general election would be "free" and held forthwith. Gomulka arranged that the 459 seats in the Sejm (Parliament) would be contested by 723 candidates (chosen from a list of 60,000 names), about half of whom would be members of the Polish Workers (Communist) Party. Although the slate was rigged in such a way that the Communists would obtain a majority, for the first time in a Soviet country the electorate...
...doomsday now." When another prince shot and killed the British vice consul in Jiddah because he refused to hand over a visiting English girl, the Old Lion offered the widow his son's life in forfeit (she declined, settled for $70,000 damages). In sorrow and anger, he forthwith banished all liquor from Saudi Arabia. In 1953, the Old Lion died, a stranger in a world he never dreamed of. At 51, Saud became King...