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What Goes Up. Beneath this display of international arrogance and domestic boasts ran admissions that last year's vaunted gains had been barely enough to keep China on the economic rails. "Since the autumn of 1958," admitted Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien, "there has been tension . . . owing to short supply of some non-staple foods and manufactured daily necessities in the cities." One of the chief causes of these "temporary difficulties," conceded Li, was the upheaval created by "such a great social change as the people's commune movement...
...often wandered on the terraces of the Potala armed with a telescope with which he could examine the busy life of his city without ever being permitted to join in it. Each spring he traveled in solemn procession through ranks of bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern matters such as the construction of jet planes, but a total acceptance of his own godhead. Once, remarking...
Experience in OSS even brought people to Harvard. Among them is Franklin L. Ford, one of the six tenured members of the present History Deparement who served in OSS. After six months of signal corps training, Ford was assigned in autumn, 1943, to Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...
Many of the black and white prints are genre studies, impishly comic or decorative, such as the delightful Autumn. This sort of divertissment is amusing and impresses the viewer with its formal cohesion. These qualities, Occidental aspects of Munakata's art, are almost entirely missing from Visiting in Evening, the simplest, most "Japanese" print of the exhibit. With its understatement and perfect balancing, the print testifies to Munakata's complete mastery of the conventional techniques of his country...
...began with a grin. "I represent business circles of the Soviet Union." That raised a laugh that brought reporters running. Thereupon, Laborite M.P. Ian Mikardo asked what might come of the proposed Foreign Ministers' meeting. "We have a saying," answered Khrushchev: "Don't count your chickens until autumn." The May 27 deadline on Berlin, he said expansively, was no deadline. "It might be postponed until June 27 or July 27. We are in no hurry...