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...State Department, which used to give the impression that it wouldn't stoop to retaliation, has since developed the habit. Last week it struck back at Rumania. With undisguised relish, State notified the seven-member Rumanian diplomatic staff in Washington that henceforth they were to stay within a 35-mile radius of the capital, leave the area only by specific permission from the State Department's Chief of Protocol. Short of living in Red Rumania, there were few diplomatic punishments as bad as spending an unrelieved summer in the jungle heat of Washington...
...talk of Argentina, the embarrassed government silenced Radio El Mundo for 24 hours, suspended its hapless announcer. "To make fun of people's ignorance and to exploit their confusion," warned the Ministry of Communications, ". . . is not in keeping with the educational, artistic or cultural aims of the nation." Henceforth, it was decreed, all radio programs in which the public would have access to the microphone are banned...
...Meter. In Upton, England, the Rev. Sidney Clarence Jones warned that henceforth any bride who keeps her impatient groom waiting at the altar will be fined a shilling (14?) a minute after the first 5 minutes...
Moscow wrote a financial fairy tale. The Soviet Council of Ministers announced last week that the ruble, which had previously been fixed as worth about 19?, would henceforth be worth 25?. The new "exchange rate" was purely imaginary. Nobody ever gets a chance to exchange any rubles into foreign currency; if one did, on a free market, a ruble would be worth more nearly a nickel than a quarter...
...comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...