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Like many durable dictators, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito preserves his one-man rule by the simple expedient of holding down the key jobs himself. He is Secretary-General of the Communist Party, supreme commander of the armed forces, and chief of state. As if that were not enough, Belgrade's complaisant Federal People's Republic unanimously approved a new national constitution last week giving Tito the presidency for life...
...city hall to vote, many for the first time in their lives. When the votes were counted, Mexican candidates had captured all five seats on the city council. And control of the council gave the Mexicans control of the town government, with authority to appoint the mayor, the marshal, and other officers...
...holds a small seance with be P.M.'s wife and peacenik son in a secluded corner of the London Zoo, reconciles the son to the father, gives the father a "new purpose and a new statesmanship," and then flies back home to do the same thing of the Chief Marshal of Hungary and His son. All this action takes place within then space of one day. The seance, of course, has turned the trick. "Lay aside all our points of view," the freedom fighter tells his new friends, "and listen to the word...
David Rockefeller, Jr., First Marshal of the Class of '63, announced the members of the permanent class committee today...
Through all the years of Marshal Tito's Communist rule, a special niche has been provided for the small private businessman who was somehow able to supply products and services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount...