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Beijing's choicest cocktail crowd gathers on nearby Xingfu Cun Zhong Lu, at the Neo Lounge, which is minimalist, marble-topped and features a large Buddha stoically surrounded by champagne bottles. All your favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some...
Days later I visited "a big brigade" in the province of Hubei that was beginning to refer to itself, not as a brigade but, again, as a cun, a village. The brigade chief, a bald-headed veteran Communist, explained once more that peasants could now decide on their own crops and routines. "Responsibility" made them care about the harvest. Then, as an afterthought, he added, "It is not only the attention of the farmer that helps. He now uses his own organic material, also the organic material of the chickens and buffaloes to enrich his fields." I read very precisely...
Making his own crowd at the Seattle World's Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said...
...year the colony has felt the pinch of sea blockade, but not until the British under Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cun ningham had mopped up most of Ethiopia last May was the wall around French So maliland complete. Then, after Vichy began to play hard at collaboration, the British and Free French sent an ultimatum to Governor Pierre Nouailhetas at Djibouti: surrender or starve. When the Governor refused to surrender, the British clamped down. By land British troops ringed the colony; at sea patrol boats of the Royal Navy stopped food ships, often in sight of pierhead watchers at Djibouti...
...Cun Fred is foreman of a big cotton plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...