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...China is already pulling Burma's Communist remnants back toward its border, to a "Yenan" redoubt where they can be reinforced and rearmed. Chou En-lai is pressing U Nu to sign a non-aggression pact that will help sanctify Red China's "Asia for the Asians" doc trine. Chou has invited U Nu to visit Peking, and last week U Nu accepted-without saying when he could be free...
...artist himself is a brisk, cheery little fellow of 57 bearing an amazing resemblance to the dwarf named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...
...middle-aged Ph.D. named Doc, previously characterized in Cannery Row by Steinbeck as "half Christ and half satyr," who spends a lot of his nondrinking time stimulating a tankful of octopuses into apoplexy, for research purposes...
Plot? Yes, there is one, of sorts. Scholarly Doc is in the middle-aged dumps. Hazel, Fauna and the rest of Cannery Row decide that he needs a woman, perhaps even a wife. While guzzling a liquid killer called "Old Tennis Shoes," they pick the girl, a scrappy newcomer at the Bear Flag named Suzy. Suzy is unsure of herself. It seems that she was rejected as a child. As she tells it to her friend Hazel...
...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...