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Since China's normalization of relations with the U.S., the Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China...
...citizens of San Francisco do not need their consciousness raised about the perils of venereal disease, but just in case, a Marin County artist named Grant Monday last week unveiled in Union Square a 4-ft. by 3-ft. ice sculpture that was supposed to portray a gonorrhea germ 700,000 times larger than life. By midweek, happily, the sculpture had been transformed into a puddle...
...subject seems beyond the interest or knowledge of Berton Roueché. An amateur gourmet, he writes lovingly of bananas, "the humblest fruit," but with their comprehensive range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character...
...deadlock threatened, and as the Cardinals broke for Sunday-night dinner, talk turned to non-Italians?"like spontaneous combustion," says one participant. The germ of the Wojtyla candidacy began overnight with "a word here and a word there," according to another. On Monday morning's fifth ballot, Wojtyla got only a few votes, but they captured attention. Holland's Johannes Willebrands drew a respectable vote, and decided to withdraw in Wojtyla's favor. Wojtyla gained noticeably on the sixth ballot. Over lunch, Wojtyla was so visibly upset by the coalescing forces that his friends feared he might refuse the papacy...
...Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts in a non-conference tilt at 1:30. The Harvard contingent will be trying to avenge last year's loss to the Minutemen and notch their first win of this season after last week's disappointing defeat at the hands of Columbia, "The Germ of the Ocean...