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...government witness testified that on Awolowo's instructions he had carried a check to purchase arms in Ghana. Police claimed that they had dug up four cartridges hidden in Awolowo's backyard. Although conducted with grave decorum, the trial had its interruptions. One prosecution witness complained that some of the accused in the dock were giving him the juju version of the evil eye-a wink...
...Great Leap Forward, launched with such fanfare in 1958, was intended to bring quick success in 1) building a pure Communist state, and 2) making China over into a first-class world power. Instead, the Leap's frenzied mobilization of peasants into communes, the setting up of backyard blast furnaces, and the 24-hour-a-day speedup...
...communes of the Great Leap exist no longer except on paper, and the countryside is dotted with rusting pillars of pig iron, melancholy memorials of the backyard furnaces that Mao thought would revitalize China. The typical farm unit now is a production team of 25 to 40 families, which are given considerable autonomy in deciding what and when to plant. Private plots were returned to the peasants in 1961, and are producing well for the free market. As usual, the Communists keep close watch: the stick comes down in the form of close regulation of the free market...
Kids who like Lassie will flip for Flipper. Dolphins, indeed, are likely to rate very high on Christmas lists this year. Parents who contemplate trying to keep one in a backyard pool should bear in mind that a dolphin eats about 15 Ibs. of live fish...
...Corpus Christi's civic memory is long and accurate. Dr. Simpson's father, with young Simpson on his back, swam over the backyard fence to the courthouse steps, where they took refuge with other storm-battered citizens...