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...names sounded strange in a Brazilian courtroom: Chu Cheng-tung, Ho Fa-tsung, Wang Wei-cheng, Su Tse-ping. The charge against them was "conspiracy against the regime, envisaging the implantation of Chinese Communism in Brazil," and it was well documented. The Red Chinese "journalists" and "trade promoters"-nine in all-had been arrested in Rio during last April's anti-Communist revolution. In their apartment and hidden in a Jeep, the cops found $100,000 in cash, plus enough letters and papers to prove that the Chinese and their Brazilian leftist friends were deep in a campaign...
...Peter's as soon as possible." Each time Pope John XXIII posed for a bust during the summer of 1961, he urged Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù to get on with a Vatican commission for new bronze doors for the left-hand side of St. Peter's façade. Manzù, who comes from Bergamo, Pope John's birthplace, listened and obeyed. Last month workmen hoisted the ten-ton bronze portals into place...
...from car to car, smashing lights, roughing up passengers. Nick sat tight. One young marauder gashed a leg while kicking out a window, and his pals tended to the wound as he lay in the aisle near Nick Philippides. Through Nick's mind flashed the advice his fa ther gave him in Greece years ago: "If someone wants to eat with you, sit down and eat with them. But if someone wants to fight with you, move away." But Nick didn't dare move. He sat paralyzed with fear. Only when the train slowed for his stop...
...nation's TV viewers know from watching many an open Cadillac -or caisson-make the trip, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has both grandeur and grubbiness. As it stretches toward the Capitol, the stalwart neoclassical façades of federal buildings rise evenly on the right. But on the left side is an uneven collection of old hotels, decayed storefronts vacant above the first floor, and dreary parking lots...
...free plaza for people afoot. Halfway between there and the Capitol, they take advantage of the fact that the National Gallery and the Archives Building now sit facing each other unrelatedly on opposite sides of the avenue, and would create another big Market Square that gives vistas of the façades of both buildings...