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Though Mao Tse-tung labors to establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...Conqueror. Nobody was surprised that hawk-nosed, blue-eyed Walter Bonatti had tried it ("I climb mountains because I am afraid of them, and conquest of fear is one of man's greatest needs"). Bonatti ranks among the world's finest mountaineers, is certainly one of the toughest. A Lombard laborer's son, he quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc...
...appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story that Forester correctly conceived as all-male. The Pride's real passion would far better have aimed solely at the conquest of Avila; Operation Sophia is pointless reconnaissance...
...leadership, but the rivalry between the peoples of the Euphrates and the Nile valleys is actually as old as civilization, which first dawned in their valleys. Then, competing empires reached out from Babylon and Thebes into the land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles on the ancient monuments around them, neither...
Only Trust. Amid all the casualness and general relaxation there were still some notable dangers abroad. One was that a new deal on disarmament might set a trend toward coexistence in Europe, i.e., accepting the division of Germany and the Russian conquest of the satellites as "a finality." Another danger was that Britain's decision to sell strategic goods to Red China might set a trend toward co-existence in Asia, i.e., recognition and respectability for Red China, a thought that the State Department speedily squashed (see below). But looming over the dangers was the fact that...