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Despite the list of probable Chinese demands, there is no longer any real hope -even among the British, who have clung to it longest-that a serious rift is developing between Peking and Moscow...
...whale was wildly uncooperative. It thrashed about the bay for an hour while the doctor clung to the gunwale. Amidships, a cardiograph expert crouched over his instrument and worked desperately with the controls. Somehow he managed to get a two-minute record of the plunging whale's heartbeats. The spray-drenched scientists went happily away, clutching the first such record in medical history...
Last month he flew home, and at Cookeville attracted a crowd of more than 10,000-the biggest political gathering in Tennessee this year. For 51 minutes McKellar clung to a tall table to support himself, and spoke in a surprisingly strong voice. Once he picked up a glass of water, but his hand was shaking so violently that he had to put it down without drinking...
...four-day visit to the Southwest, Averell Harriman clung closely, as usual, to the Fair Deal party line. At Phoenix, he labeled the G.O.P. "the Grim Old Pessimists." At Albuquerque, he cried that "we could never have defeated the forces of fascism in World War II if our economic vitality had not been restored by the New Deal." On the Taft-Eisenhower promises to cut spending, he said: "You can't have low taxes and security." At Salt Lake City, he rode in a jolting buckboard escorted by 40 cowboys and Ute Indians, who later made him a chief...
...Rodin. But Rodin was in his 60s, and busy with a complex public life. "Be patient and less violent," he admonished her. Yet the illustrious sculptor was fond of Gwen, and wrote frequent letters scolding about her health. And even after she entered the Roman Catholic Church she clung to Rodin for love and comfort. "My heart is like a sea which has little sad waves," she wrote. "But every ninth wave is big and happy...