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...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...
...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...Sugar Plum Fairy danced to a set of camel bells, the Arabs to an accompaniment of carefully modulated burps. Tchaikovsky's flutes, piccolos and muted strings were drowned out by washboards, police sirens, breaking glass...
Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
...Russians broke the hold of the lamas over the primitive Mongol sheep and camel herders. Then, in 1924, in response to one of those spontaneous popular demands that commonly follows a Red Army occupation, the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia was set up. It was nominally independent, virtually a 17th Soviet Republic...