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...remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked of his soldiers' peccadilloes: "So what if an Austrian woman is raped-she may even have enjoyed it. And lootings? It's capitalist property anyhow that they are stealing.") By this little switch, Khrushchev rid himself of the man who helped him get rid of Zhukov, just as he had rid himself of Zhukov three months after the marshal helped him get rid of Molotov & Co. The further result was to give a member of the proffessional officers' corps the unpopular choice of enforcing...
Since World War II, the U.S. has spent $588 million converting Okinawa into the key U.S. military bastion in the Far East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life. But it did make the 1,600-year-old hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still can't get rid of it. We've had requests for it from all over the world, and it would take a Solomon to make a decision. Also, as a matter of fact, I'm getting rather fond of it." But when a colleague suggested that the museum display...
...power would have been diverted as well. Thus, any discussion about "helping the farmer instead of eliminating him," to quote Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, should distinguish between farmers worth helping and those worth discouraging. The Eisenhower farm proposals can deal with both as painlessly as possible--and get rid of surpluses in the bargain...
...Works. Government is the country's biggest business, and the Treasury takes in so much money that it actually has a problem spending it. In the last fiscal year, expenditures came to a record $1.1 billion, but income (60% from oil) reached a record $1.6 billion. To get rid of it all, the government depends on lavish public works totaling 57% of the budget. Grafters do their bit to balance the books by taking from 10% to 30% on contracts...