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China's Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made...
...army's influence was most apparent in the newly elected Central Committee: of its 170 members, 105 are either soldiers or civilians with solid military backgrounds. Its meeting in Peking last week to elect a new Politburo and Standing Committee produced several surprises. Mao was, of course, re-elected chairman, and newly anointed Successor Lin Piao was chosen as the only vice chairman. However, Premier Chou Enlai, who had long clung to his ranking as third in the power hierarchy, was listed with two others as simply a member of the Standing Committee. China watchers saw this...
...desperate, his humiliations more painful. He travels about Italy digging holes in public parks and passing them off to the public as a kind of underground sculpture-reminiscent of the sculpture-by-excavation once committed by another playful artist, Claes Oldenburg, in the soil of New York's Central Park. One outraged member of the public hits Fidelman over the head with his own artistic shovel, and he topples into a sculpture-hole grave. He-and the novel-emerges entirely changed, if not quite resurrected...
JOHNSON: Yes, I'd like to go back to the question which seems central. That is the use of force...
...tried the filet mignon. Most of the artistry was on the part of the steer, not the chef, who made it medium rather than rare. Still, the meat was tender, and he makes a fine shish-kebab ($3.25) although if you want Greek food you'd do better in Central Square...