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Communists are busily shaping each of the six satellite countries to a set Marxist pattern as fast as the national character will allow. Each is getting what Americans call "the works" and Soviets more solemnly call vypolnenye plana, "plan fulfillment...
...Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
...four days the partners studied a Palace Club roulette wheel, jotting down the winning numbers and recording the machine's pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their...
...crisis. France was on the verge of a civil war that would preclude any American aid. Ramadier's successor, ex-finance minister Robert Schuman, is charged with an immense task--that of tramping Communism under a vigorous and potent democracy. His success or failure might well set the future pattern of current American plans to choke off Russian expansion, for France is the keystone in the Marshall Plan...
Then in scores of other towns from the northern plains to Sicily, the pattern was repeated. Desks, typewriters and telephones sailed out the office windows of the luckless Qualunquists, stacks of rightist newspapers made huge bonfires, and Red orators cursed the Government for not silencing "the fascist press." In Naples the Communists tried to raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril...