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Immediately he began breathing fire: China will industrialize the Soviet way, i.e., by developing heavy industry at the expense of light (consumer) industries, though this will entail higher taxes and greater economy in state industries. Capital for the operation: the people's savings and the workers' sweat. Coinciding with Kao's appointment was a power-ingathering order abolishing six regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there...
Jewels & Spices. Like any good housekeeper, she managed to tidy up a number of historical mysteries. For one thing, she unearthed copies of the much-debated Columbus "Entail of Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he might discover. For another, she also did away with an age-old libel on Columbus' men, whom historians had long assumed to be no more than a gang of ex-convicts. Actually, only four were ever near a jail. "Aside from these four," says Alice Gould proudly, "none...
...denominations is still far away. Warned Yale's Professor Kenneth S. Latourette, retiring Baptist president: "We are realizing some [risks] in our parallel meetings with the Disciples of Christ, so like ourselves in many ways and yet so different that efforts at a closer association would only entail unhappiness for us both." Although both groups are congregational, i.e., each church runs its own affairs, church leaders found some strong doctrinal differences in the way of unity. Example: the Disciples have historically believed that baptism is necessary for salvation, the Baptists have not. Said Layman Jack Sutton, speaking...
...manifested in the classrooms, where students vie to ask piercing questions. Although Burkhardt claims that "girls aren't afraid of being dumb," the competition in some classes assumes disproportionate dimensions and tends to make the duller students remain silent. The classes, which meet one to three times weekly, and entail many papers, run about 13 members and may include an occasional male one of the drama students...
Besides the Air Force, the Army and Navy R.O.T.C. programs also entail summer training. Navy regular student take six-week cruises abroad on warships during the three summers they are college. Contract students make only one six-week cruise after their junior year, while the Army cadets attend summer camp after completing their Military Science third course...