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...read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants beyond their endurance. The report made sober reading for those Asians who had believed Red China's propaganda about the superiority of Communism as a way of swiftly industrializing a backward nation...
...yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed his arms backward, and the shark's jaws snapped on empty air. As the fish flashed by, Masami instinctively wrapped his arms around its slippery middle and hung on for his life...
...body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right uppercuts that had the challenger tottering backward in a grotesque little dance. At the bell, Bassey weakly raised Moore's hand, then refused to come out for the eleventh. "I'm getting beaten too badly," he told Referee Frankie Van. "I'm through...
...Administration use, Jim Mitchell decided to share them with the country. Many an anxious reporter and confused citizen hoped to find in the Mitchell report a solution to the five-week-old steel strike. But the report produced more of a sputter than a bang. It bent so far backward to be impartial that each side in the steel dispute immediately claimed vindication for its own cause...
...other millions in just-beginning companies-Geophysics Corp., Nuclear Development Corp., etc.-that explore everything from spaceship design to missile defenses. He is also moving into a new investment area that combines his lifelong interests in travel, conservation, development of backward areas. In the Virgin Islands. Rockefeller set up the 600-acre Cancel Bay Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world...