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...down and began shoveling mouthfuls of rice. "What's the matter?" her relatives asked. "Don't you like pork?" "Oh yes!" the little girl replied, "I like pork. But we shouldn't eat it so quickly." The fact is that Red China is in the grip of famine. The dimensions of the trouble are impossible to measure because of Communist efforts to conceal the facts, and because of China's ancient indifference to statistics. But a careful culling of local newspapers shows the significant details of China's misery...
Authors Gerhardi and Loewenstein have obviously spent many hours of near-simian ingenuity on Analyze Yourself. Though many of their conclusions are demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...
HPHE U.S. is currently in the grip of a shortage that Assistant Defense Secretary Donald Quarles ominously calls "potentially a greater threat to national security than any aggressor weapons known." That is the shortage of trained engineers. Just to keep pace...
...Dodgers proved that they could still get into a pickle occasionally. Smokey's heavy-hitting outfielder, Carl Furillo, had just explained how his golfing technique helped his baseball: "I've done two things: I've changed my grip, and now I hold my neck rigid so I keep my eye on the ball." In Chicago Carl had to take a day off: stiff neck. Then the Dodgers lost to the Cubs 10-8. That robbed the Giants of their only current distinction: until that game, only the Giants had beaten the Dodgers this season...
...Mandate? But Avery angrily turned down the deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson...