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...when Chiang Kai-shek turned on the Chinese Communists and drove them underground. Ho's hegira took him back and forth between Moscow and China for the next 13 years, forming new parties, resting in British or Chinese jails, organizing hunger strikes, taking a concubine who later bore him a daughter, and writing inspirational poetry when nothing more inspiring could be done...
...most important contest in 1958 was one he lost. On Boxing Day, Dec. 26, he drove the Reivers' Lotus Elite in a ten-lap race at Brands Hatch, found himself involved in "a whale of a dice" with another Elite driven by a persistent, mustachioed fellow who bore a striking resemblance to Actor David Niven. His competitor, it later turned out, was Colin Chapman -a young, prematurely grey engineer who had graduated from London University in 1948, set up shop in 1952 as Lotus Cars, Ltd. For eight of the ten laps, Jim managed to stay in front. Then...
...late as 1847, when this scene was witnessed, the mustang myriads that wandered the great plains were one of the principal natural resources of the wild West. Broken to the saddle, harnessed to the plow, they became an instrument of manifest destiny, the brute force that bore forward the men who won the West. In this classic compendium of horse lore, republished for the first time since 1940, a generation obsessed with horsepower is vividly reminded of the power of the horse...
...drifts into some high-class sex with her friend Julia, which seems to make life tolerable until Julia gets killed in an automobile accident. Well, that's the way the chassis crumples. Author Rochefort says that married life is hell for a woman who is married to a bore. No great shakes for the bore either...
Insurance-conscious U.S. architects object that boards, bricks and nails are dangerous playthings. On the contrary, says Lady Allen, accidents are less frequent in her playgrounds than in conventional asphalt lots, probably because immovable playthings "bore children and breed a sort of mass hysteria." Anyway, she adds, "it is better to risk a broken leg than a broken spirit. A leg can always mend. A spirit...