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...between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl--football is forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
...years ago the hyperactive child is a Hero. He milks the cows, feeds the chickens, baskets the eggs, slops the pigs, harnesses the team, plows the field, gathers the harvest, saddles the horse, rides the range, drives the car, cuts the wood, mows lawns, picks cotton, reads novels, dates girls, sweeps the house, mops the kitchen, boy scouts, plays sports, deerhunts with his father, goes to dances, practices the piano, sings in the choir, plays in the orchestra, attends school, travels widely, and engages in sundry other activities...
Some speculation inevitably focused on the radical Gang of Four. Gang Leader Jiang Qing, Mao Tse-tung's onetime companion, and her accomplices from Shanghai (municipal Party Official Zhang Chunqiao, Literary Critic Yao Wenyuan and cotton-mill Party Functionary Wang Hongwen) assumed power in the mid-1960s and instituted a reign of terror in which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide. Though the gang members were arrested and dis graced four years ago, the announcement that they would go on trial for then-crimes came only last month...
...first, I went out of curiosity," Crone says. "Then I started finding really good buys." He mentions buys like 75 cents to a dollar for cotton, button-down shirts and a dollar or two for pants...
Signs of the American trade connection are in many places. In Shanghai, ships of the American President Line unload bales of American raw cotton. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, preparations are under way for an oil drill bit plant to be built under a $50 million contract with the Hughes Tool Co. In the coastal Fujian province, the state-owned Amoy Cigarette Co. will soon be producing Camels under an agreement with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. In Peking, Bank of America will open a branch in a two-story brick building that was part of the U.S. legation...