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...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
...predicted apathy at the polls. A few days before the election, Dubliners seemed more interested in Eire's current hubbub over venereal disease than in politics. But the Irish misjudged the Irish. On election day some 65% of the eligible voters managed to get to the polls-by donkey cart, shanks' mare, even horse-drawn mourning coaches...
...Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
...father was a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific, who lost his job in 1894 when he went out on strike. The family moved 110 miles north to Bakersfield, then still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed by an outlaw. (Thirty-five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered...
Hunting a distant target with sunbeams reflected from an ordinary mirror is a good deal like trying to pin the tail on the donkey. This glass has a full mirror on its face, a smaller circular mirror on its back, and a sighting cross (A) in the center. To aim it, the signaler faces the mirror toward a point about halfway between the target (the plane) and the sun, and sights the target through the cross. The sun, shining through the sight, makes a cross-shaped spot of light (B) on the signaler's hand. When the mirror...