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Yugoslayiadropped
,out in 19481,
Comecon was dlormant for a number
of years, e,speeially naiter Stalins
death.
Latterly,
there
have
been
some spectacular joint achiwements,
such as bhe Friendship , pipeline
which will link the Trans-Volga oilfieldswithEasternGermany,Hungaryand
Czechoslovakia. But the
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Integration is verylimited;even
the currencies of the memlb,er states
arenot
,mutuallyconvereible;
and
since sovereignty has been
an underlying priniciple o f the organization,
Colmecondoes not send out orders,
but only recommendations, and these
are often ignored.
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THE Comeconcommuniqukissued
after
its
recent two-day meeti,ng
dwelt lboth on. achievemenw and future plans. Among the !achievements
wast,he 13 per cent annual increase
in theindustrial p,aodu.ction of the
Comeconcountries;
butno figures
weregiven
$or agriculture,
except
that the socialized sector had now
gone up to 90 per cent. As for ehe
futupe, the com,muniq.uk demanded
the calling laof
conferen,ce that
would set up a World Trade Organizationandstressed
that all the Socialist countries wanted ,to trade with
the capitalist countcies. It also outlined in very general terms the much
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S E1962
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Of
A HOLLYWOOD gossipcolumnist,
who shouldknow
If anyone does,
s a d that Marilyn Monroes life was
a n absolute waste; one wonders what
he, in the blief watches of the night,
thinks of what he does with his time.
Radio Vaticail
proclaimed
that
a
personshouldhavethecourageto
~ A R I L Y N MONROE was sull- face life without turning to the easy
posed t o bme theSexGoddess,
but way out of suicide. It (seems to have
somehow no one, including, or iadeed been a relatively dif,ficult way f,or a
first of all, herself,ever believed it. 7~70manwho tried it sorne half-dozen
Rather, .she was a comedienne i m - times without success. Marilyn MonScience and
personatiyzg the ,American ideaof the roe turned to Christian
a gooddaughter-inSexGoddess, justasshe
impelrson- let herself,as
ated
Hildegarde,
the
c~hantoosie,y law, beinstructedintheReformed
in Bzu Stop. When people paid nheir Jewilsh faith. There is ,evidence that
forty miIlions t o see Monroe, i t was she
believed
in
divine
providence,
foranaestheticperformance,not
a but Its councilors on earth have not
proceeded far enough in the ecumensimple
provocation.
And
she,
perhaps even consciously, e ~ e m ~ p l ~ f iae d ical movement to help miserable performing artists wllose God-given talphllosophywhichhadcome
toher
pragmaticalIy,andwhich
a lot OF ents blring them more burdens than
their God-given
flesh
can
bear.
American
women
dont
hke
very
More than predictably, the fdhiest
much-a
philosophy
at
once
hefootnote
appeared
in Tilnes anodonlstic,full of uncommoncommon
Recapping
,every
detail
sense, and, even to some in~ellectuals, nymity.
deeply disturbing. Her perEoirmances w h ~ c hcould .exude a faiatly pornorollindicated that whilesex i:s certainly graphic whiff, its final diapason
ed: AP the same she was a star; it
fun, andoftenfunny, I t IS onlyone
of nlany games. Otlhers include t he hardlymatters ,she neverqulte became an actress. G e t t h a t quite.
use of the intelligence.Sexhasa
Malilyn Monroes
life
was not a
certain importance, indubitably, -but
She wasa
th e messianic role w,hich has been as- waste.Shegavedelight.
signed I t in thefirst
half of the c~riterion#ofthe conlic in a rather sad
world. Her films
will
continueto
twentiethcentury
may havebeen
overplayed,just
as it was under- give delight; and it is btlasphemny t o
no use. Herexample,
played in the second haIf of the nine- sayshehad
teenthcentury.
It seems to have our waste of her, has the use of a
redemption in arti,stsyetuntrained
beenplayedaboutrightinGreece,
andunbow.
Rome, Japaa and eighteenthcentury
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Letters
(Contzlnred f r o m inside f j o n t cover)
WO~
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6uEtras at
was
Waste in Washington
D e a r Sirs. Your edltorial in the July 28
issue [A Scent on the Wind] was
very encouraglng to me. It is good to
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