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Behind the great arc that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past...
...pitchers with sleepy eyes, the end of his bat twitching ominously like the tail of a prowling panther. He seemed almost to be napping as the ball started toward him, but at the last instant he snapped his powerful wrists and the bat whistled in a perfectly coordinated arc. When he was through swinging against the Phils, Aaron had smashed out six hits in seven tries, and his Braves were in first place...
...Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles. Communications were cut; the area's network of irrigation canals...
...find myself inclined to follow the lead of the single man, Eisenhower, as against the combined "intelligence" of all those raucous members of Congress who arc now having such a wonderful time playing their game of politics. In the end, the sound and fury which now rages through the halls of Congress will abate, and Ike will yet emerge the winner...
Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...