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...often conflicting. For example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...
...frail-looking, he leads a bustling life in his Budapest apartment, and his mind remains agile enough to lace everything with a salty streak of wit. At Stanford, he vaulted on and off stages like a track star, cavorted in a swimming pool, journeyed out into the country to gaze up wonderingly at California's giant redwoods, and once drew a little girl aside with a promise of a secret, then whispered in her ear: "I love you." Always at his side was his striking 27-year-old wife, Sarolta, interpreting, smoothing his way, even firmly sending...
...Democrats, no hawks or doves, no Northerners or Southerners-only guests at a solemn ceremony. No TV or radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under the gaze of a huge mosaic of a stern Christ in red robes, and vowed to each other: With this ring I marry you and pledge to you my ever faithful love...
There was a predictable note of triumph in the President's voice as he fastened a paternal gaze on the television cameras and intoned: "Both sides of the negotiating parties in the airlines strike are here with me to report that they have now reached agreement on the terms of a settlement." Lyndon had done it again: he had squeezed elbows, waved the flag and presto, solved yet another labor deadlock. Thanks to the old Johnson magic, the strike of 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists against five major U.S. airlines was about to end after...
...they gaze around their gleaming, steel-furnished executive offices...