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Good Communists have long frowned on the capitalistic, zoot-suited squares who resist the muscular dedication of their People's Republics. They call them variously hooligans, Bikinists (after the big bomb and the little bathing suits) or just plain Schlurfs. Last week a 25-year-old, gun-toting Schlurf named Jan Brzoza was up before a Polish court, charged, along with three accomplices, with robbery. The court decided to make an example of Brzoza and sentenced him to death on the simple grounds that if a Bikinist is not already a traitor he will probably be one before long...
...anybody else for that matter, believes that the Army National Guard can be built up and maintained by assigning it to a home-guard role in the national-defense system, he has never been more mistaken in his life, and the entire National Guard, Army and Air, will resist to the utmost the imposition of any such concept...
...political issue that the U.S. regards as most urgent-Communist penetration in Latin America, specifically in Guatemala-seems to have discouragingly little appeal for the neighboring republics. With few exceptions, they regard Communism as an internal problem, and some will even resist, as "intervention," U.S. efforts to turn the spotlight on Guatemala's influential Reds. Unless Secretary Dulles and his men can do an expert, tactful job of persuasion, the Latinos may be inclined simply to place on record a piously anti-Communist resolution, similar to the one adopted at Bogota in 1948, and let it go at that...
...French navy at Toulon, is much like Piccard's Italian-built bathyscaphe, the Trieste. Her submarine-shaped hull, filled with gasoline (lighter than water) supports a sphere two meters in diameter with stainless-steel walls 3.5 in. thick. The sphere is the only part intended to resist pressure. In it huddle the crew, surrounded by jampacked instruments and apparatus...
...consensus of opinion among the Conference members was that students resist reporting offenders, even though such reporting is necessary for the system to function. Social ostracism of the reporter by friends of the offender was felt to be one of the chief factors in the girls' reluctance to report infractions...