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When China's recently appointed constitutional committee held its first meeting a fortnight ago, however, the Peking radio offhandedly reported that Committee Chairman Mao had presided. Last week Peking papers arriving in Hong Kong carried seemingly genuine likenesses of Mao-looking thinner than usual-posing with 25 other members of the constitutional committee. While this made it almost certain that Mao is alive, his strange and unprecedented absence from important party meetings over a 14-week period remained unexplained. So in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Formosa, rumors persist that he is sick...
Dissenting Voice. A fortnight ago, Philip Graham, 38, Post publisher and president and Meyer's son-in-law, got a mysterious phone call from a Trib vice president, who said guardedly: "There's a point to our meeting. It's brand-new to me." Phil Graham went out hastily to the airport to meet his father-in-law, returning from a Jamaica vacation, immediately started a series of meetings to buy the paper. Meyer insisted from the beginning that the negotiations be kept a complete secret and that there be no haggling over the price. He offered...
...String of Salutes. The test of last fortnight makes all its predecessors, including the 1952 shot, look like a string of one-inch salutes. The force of the explosion probably exceeded ten megatons (500 Hiroshimas). It sent a radioactive cloud billowing to a height that may have exceeded 20 miles. In the thin air of the stratosphere, it seems likely, the cloud slumped over like water tossed from a bucket...
...farmers in the old Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma-Colorado dust bowl were worrying about a lack of wheat, not a surplus. In the last fortnight, storms have again covered farms in the drought-stricken bowl with blankets of dust. Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton pointed out that there would be no dust bowl if good grazing lands, anchored by tough, tangled grass roots, had not been plowed up to plant wheat under the incentive of Government-supported high prices. Said he: "High prices guaranteed for wheat have ... led to plowing up . . . land which never should have been cultivated...
...January, when Harris was temporarily laid up by a heart ailment, Vice President Malcolm S. Mackay, who was named executive vice president a fortnight ago, took the controls. At the same time, the board rescinded its earlier approval of Harris' long-range program and decided to defer payment of the quarterly preferred-stock dividend. That knocked the common down another 1½ points, to 7½. The next day, without a word to President Harris, an executive of the company notified a St. Paul newspaper that Harris...