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...Mutual Understanding." Shortly after noon on a cold and cloudy day, Nehru's DC-3 touched down at Peking. The Red capital's factories and offices were closed in his honor, and 1,000,000 Chinese lined his route. "Since the dawn of history," croaked Nehru throatily to Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, "India and China have coexisted as good friends . . . We should try to deepen our mutual understanding." But what happened during the next few days showed that the Communists wanted all the understanding to come from Jawaharlal Nehru...
...dawn two army ambulances drove onto the regimental firing range, and the ten men, their hands bound, stepped out on trembling feet, looked across the bare, floodlit ground and saw ten wooden posts newly erected before a high mud wall. Guards tied each man to his post. "Don't hurt me," said Major Atarod. "I'll be quiet now." "What do you mean, brother?" smiled Colonel Siamak. "It's finished." He turned to the guards tying him to his post and said: "If we had succeeded, we'd have been less tactful with...
...last Paris collection, said Vogue bravely, had been "especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink. The wearer can cover a distance of 200 yards through mustard gas." It also advised readers that "white acces sories are very chic in wartime. They show up well in blackouts...
...combined result, per se; is not very good, but then the first rays of dawn are not very bright. Especially after a long night...
...soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot himself or else to write a book. Promising Author...