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...short, squat bridge perches across a shallow gully at Lo Wu, where Red China and British Hong Kong meet. Railroad tracks as well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...Philadelphia-built locomotive decorated with the red stars of Mao Tse-tung's China, British Laborites Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and their six fellow travelers emerged from three weeks behind the Iron Curtain to roll across the Lo Wu bridge in luxurious oblivion of the lowly footpath beneath them. In Hong Kong the touring Laborites parted company: Attlee to go to Australia, Bevan and the others to visit Japan. But behind them in Red China, they had obligingly left with Chinese newsmen a joint declaration that gave no evidence of an ideological split. "We sympathize with the efforts...
...mountain spine, then invaded the "associated state" of Laos in its southern, least strongly defended sector (see map). The Communists fell by night upon a French-Laotian company near the border and cut it quickly to pieces. Then the invaders headed west through scraggy hillsides towards the Mekong, using footpath trails to bypass the French defense posts along the main highway. They need not have bothered: the French, hopelessly outnumbered, were already pulling out. The day after Christmas, the Communists entered the center of Thakhek (pop. 10,000) and gazed across the Mekong to the rich land of Siam. They...
Last week it bore small fruit when Nurse Helen Maud Rowe took the baby for an outing on a footpath, pushing Elizabeth's old royal-blue pram. Cameras with telephoto lenses clicked furiously. But the pictures showed more pram than prince. Two days later one snapped a picture that showed the top of the prince's head (see cut). Then the royal family requested editors to call off their men. A reporter remonstrated with a lady pressagent at Buck House about the royal family's impregnable reserve. "After all," she retorted, "it is a private matter, really...
...stand at the window of a railway carriage which is traveling uniformly, and drop a stone on the embankment, without throwing it. Then, disregarding the influence of the air resistance, I see the stone descend in a straight line. A pedestrian who observes the misdeed from the footpath notices that the stone falls to earth in a parabolic curve. I now ask: Do the 'positions' traversed by the stone lie 'in reality' on a straight line or on a parabola? Moreover, what is meant here by motion 'in space...