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Bustling into the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal on the way home from his trip to India last spring, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai wore his sunniest friendship grin. Mouthing sentiments of peace and solidarity, Chou happily played the role of Nepal's big brother in Asia, signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala that was designed to soothe border frictions...
...Thames was full of practicing oarsmen last week, all correctly garbed in soggy sweat suits and all wearing the sober face of dedication to a gentleman's sport. Then an Australian named Stuart Mackenzie clapped a flippantly incorrect bowler on his head, put on a sardonic grin, and sallied out for a trial scull. Watching Mackenzie's parody of his prospective rivals, one old Cambridge rowing blue sniffed: "Just not the sort of thing done around here...
...skirt, or the design of an arm band appear more than once. The small figures gather at carnivals, dance through the night. Even a venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush his own irrepressible giggles...
...bigger than Sterling Forest. Recently he submitted a plan to provide industrial Akron with a new civic center. One touch was characteristic. There would be a businessmen's luncheon club, but to reach it, businessmen would have to go through the art museum. Thus, says Dowling with a grin, "whether they want to be or not, they will be exposed to the finer things in life...
...time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really means what his narrator says. The newspaperman's powerful, simultaneous attraction and revulsion toward sex has left him torn by disillusion. But his humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able to see the Devil's jigging hoofs instead of the barmaid's dimpled knees...