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...Russians stirred a lot of worry a few years ago by saturating the Middle and Far East with low-priced books. But the Russians keep running up against a formidable obstacle: a great curiosity for American books. In Egypt 50% of publishers' lists are books of U.S. origin. In Iran a Persian edition of Dr. Spock's baby book was hard to get published because the printers kept snitching page proofs to take home to their wives. In other countries the primer style of U.S. textbooks (often none too popular at home) is highly esteemed for self-teaching...
Exports: Bananas, livestock products. Per capita income: $42. U.S. aid (1961): $4,200,000. Somalis of Arabian origin, hope to annex ethnically linked areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, French Somaliland into "Greater Somalia." Strong resistance to Communism...
Paul Fabra, a foreign affairs reporter for Le Monde, outlined the history of the Common Market, in its origin in the early post-war years, he observed, were the ideas that only a large market, exemplified by the United States, was appropriate for mass production economics. Economic unity would eventually lead to political unity...
...Douglas is a minister's son; Clark served for years as a church elder). Brennan is the court's only Roman Catholic. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White took no part in the decision. White and Dissenter Stewart are Episcopalians, and Frankfurter is a Jew by origin, but answers "no comment" when asked about his religious affiliation...
...painstaking study begun seven years ago. At the East Orange, N.J.. Veterans Administration Hospital, lung tissue was obtained from 227 postmortems, put on microscope slides, and carefully examined by pathologists. The hundreds of slides were identified only with coded numbers, and pathologists did not know their origin. Later statisticians were able to match the pathological findings with the histories of the dead patients. The results of the study added up to an elaborate description of progressive smoke damage...