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...thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters at the rate of 500 a day; out flowed free books. By the time the mails had poured in some 3,000 claims from winning bettors, the publishers nervously stuck a finger in the dike: they took a small ad in one morning's Times cautiously announcing that their "offer" (identified only by its date and page in the Book Review) would expire that afternoon, then started getting up a form letter that all bets were...
...patch the dike of Communist unity, he charged off to Prague, to East Berlin, to Bucharest, received one satellite delegation after another in the Kremlin. He offered loans here, concessions there. "You like workers' councils? Take them. We won't criticize you," he said in a speech to the Czechs...
Armed with a pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into...
...votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...hatched plots against Egyptians have at last found themselves forced to recognize Egypt's rights in supervising its own canal." Though the U.S. continued to haggle for some kind of multilateral agreement, every ship that paid its tolls and sailed through the canal widened the breach in the dike of effective Western resistance...