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...Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
...this maze, lines of authority get tangled and jealousies flourish. Nobody in the Pentagon, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down, has been able to explain where Roy Johnson's bailiwick ends and Herb York's begins. York considers himself Johnson's boss; Johnson disagrees. Last year ARPA and the Air Force got into a prolonged squabble over whether or not U.S.A.F. would be stenciled on an Air Force rocket assigned to ARPA...
...Maze? What is wrong? The Eisenhower Administration's space programs are beset by the confusion of purposes and the scattering of authority. Reflecting an arbitrary division of space programs into "military" and "civilian," the nation's space effort is split up between two separate bureaucratic domains, both ineffectual: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, headed by Roy Johnson, sometime General Electric executive, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, headed by T. Keith Glennan, engineer, ex-Hollywood studio manager and president-on-leave of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology. Neither ARPA nor NASA...
...part, Poland's food problems today are manmade. In 1956, bowing to the demands of a fierce peasantry, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed farmers to leave Poland's collectives and return to their private plots. But, Marxist that he is, Gomulka surrounded the peasants with a maze of economic controls. Last year, when the government pegged the price of potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same...
...Mannix diagnosed it, Blue Cross is suffering from hardening of the arteries, has lost the pioneering spirit that sparked its phenomenal growth in the 1930s. It now has 80-odd plans operating across the U.S., works through an organizational maze of associations, commissions and committees. Some Blue Cross groups have restricted benefits while raising their rates; individually they are not up to dealing with employers and labor unions, which want nationwide coverage...