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...girls" were a long time getting to Comic Paar, a Canton, Ohio, boy whose mother wanted him to become a minister. Instead, he quit school after the tenth grade to become a radio writer and performer, drifted into TV chiefly as a summer replacement. Now, sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself...
Through the years, Chinese students have often led the way for their elders, sounded the bell that called China to reform and revolt. And this time, said Hu, "the response was almost unanimous from all student bodies in every part of China -from Mukden to Canton, from Shanghai and Nanking in the east to Chungking and Chengtu in the west...
...Kwangtung province, Peking claimed that a plot to blow up the Canton-Shamchun rail line died aborning when the chief saboteur, "caught carrying 1.5 kilograms of U.S.-made high explosives," had a change of mind and surrendered to authorities. He told Red officials he had been "coerced" by Nationalist agents in Hong Kong, and a grateful Peoples' Council decided that this full and frank confession deserved a reward: they gave him a fountain pen. Communist informers also uncovered a plot in Tsinghai "led by intellectuals and financed by capitalists" who planned to overthrow the regime. The plotters' goal...
...tung had called for honest criticism of his government and, lo, from Canton to Chungking there was criticism. The walls of Peking University blazed with multicolored placards pointedly demanding "What is more precious than individual liberty?", angrily proclaiming that "Graduate students know very little because they are allowed to study only Russian methods in physics lab." Engineer Li Pei Ying of Tientsin declared: "Intellectuals live a life that is less peaceful than it was under Japanese or Kuomintang rule...
...current outbreak apparently started in northern China in January; in February it swept through Shanghai; by March it was in Canton. Early in April, influenza jumped to Hong Kong, almost certainly carried by refugees from Red China. The disease was marked by three or four days of severe headache, fever (up to 104°), aching muscles, general malaise. Against complications-bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. -sulfas and antibiotics worked well. (Hong Kong's unemployed made a good thing of standing in the clinic lines for drugs, then when they neared the head of the line selling their places to the severely...