Word: rigidities
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...West, economists began discussing things that the West would understand: bonuses and reinvestment, free prices and the need for incentives, even the accumulation of wealth-once a heretical thought under "egalitarian" Communism. Quite independently of one another, the prophets of profit began coming to the same conclusion: rigid Stalinist-style central planning must cease...
Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar found Johnson's visit to Thailand the first instance in which the rigid protocol surrounding the royal family was eased slightly. Bangkok was also the scene of Correspondent Bonnie Angelo's finest hour. Bonnie had been with Sidey and Photographer Walter Bennett on the press plane following Johnson. Her special assignment was Lady Birdwatching, and she went along as the unflagging First Lady drank ceremonial liquor in Pago Pago, patted kangaroos in Australia, and dug for burial urns in the Philippines. Once Bonnie was invited by L.B.J. to share an airborne breakfast with...
Uprooted Forests. Similar forays are taking place throughout the game parks of East Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
...year ago, Mireille Mathieu was just another unknown teen-ager trying her luck on a French TV show called The Game of Chance, an amateur tal ent contest sandwiched between the halves of a rugby match. Standing rigid as a rail, she sang one two-minute song, but it was enough to send a shock wave of recognition through thousands of viewers. That vibrant power, that haunting, husky throb. It was Edith Piaf reincarnate. Even her birdlike dimensions-4 ft. 10 in., 90 Ibs.-matched Piaf's precisely...
...holdover Anderson appointees who refused to resign made him seem ineffectual. But in 1964 and 1965 he accumulated a strong list of legislative achievements including better mental illness programs, a fair-employment act, and a system of state junior colleges. Rolvaag has delighted Democrats and infuriated conservatives with his rigid opposition to a state sales tax and flashed impressive. executive power this spring by vetoing a legislative redistricting bill and getting a new version which he signed within two weeks...