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...such stiff tests, there are scarcely more than twoscore genuinely functioning democracies. But they embrace about 40% of the world's 3.2 billion people. Another 40% live under the "barbary" of totalitarian rule, the rest in political halfway houses. The governments that most closely meet the democratic tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings...
...ahold of Daddy's wallet and remove "those little green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln and Jefferson and send them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico." Four $1 bills came in, and so did a stiff complaint. Soup was canned, but only temporarily. His suspension became an instant cause. The phone calls never quit, petitions piled up, the station was picketed, and five days later his hourlong, six-times-a-week show roared back...
...spring tour, the Harvard stickmen came back to victory by defeating an sager M.I.T. team 7-5. Both teams played a hard game in this annual opener which is the Big Game for the Engineers but ordinarily considered by Harvard little more than a warm-up before facing the stiff Ivy League competition...
Harvard's "spring training" matches were a different story. In the past, Harvard has been able to split its team into two equally strong units and still manage beat almost everybody. But this year a couple of teams, Georgia and Georgia , could have given Harvard's full squad a stiff match...
Unions are making stiff demands in the rubber, aerospace, aluminum, shipping and textile industries, all of which must renew labor contracts in coming months. And in Pittsburgh, steel negotiators angrily rejected a United Steelworkers proposal that would cost the industry an extra $1 an hour per man-thus further raising fears of a strike that could damage the unprecedented 50-month advance of the economy...