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...airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle as the Chinese loaded their 21 tons of luggage aboard the waiting plane. Thus, in less than an hour, did Red China abandon its most successful forward base for subversion in black Africa...
Blough assured his audience that one who enters the business world need not abandon his intellectual orientation or deals. "A business man protects one of our most basic freedoms--the freedom from want...
Duchamp was clearly cut out to be an intellectual in the realm of art. As a young man, he experimented with painting in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec, the Fauves, and even the cubists, only to abandon each. He rejected the romantic concept of the artist in smudgy smock and flowing cravat, abhorred the veneration of art given to official "masterpieces," decided that "oil painting is old hat and should be discarded forever." As the naturalists of Courbet's day had proved that anything could be a subject for art, Duchamp set out to prove that art could...
...reached a point last November when a cease-fire and truce talks seemed about to achieve some kind of settlement. No such luck. The Nasser-backed republicans declined to give up their claim to power in San'a, the capital, and the royalists were not about to abandon the bitter fight waged in the hills by their leader, the deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr...
Heavy Thalers. The bloody civil war, which may have cost over 100,000 dead, is one that everyone is sick of and no one knows how to stop. During the ceasefire, negotiations broke down because the republicans refused to give up the republic and the royalists refused to abandon the Imam. And al most all Yemenis, of whatever political stripe, want to be rid of Egyptian troops, who behave more like an army of occupation than an ally...