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...armored division knifes into Manchuria from the west, across the Mongolian border. Fleets of Ilyushin bombers pound Chinese airfields, troop concentrations and industrial centers across the entire northeast. China's outnumbered jets are swept from the skies, and within a week the major Manchurian cities of Shenyang and Harbin have fallen to the Soviet pincers. Linking up, the Russian columns race south toward Peking, then halt 50 miles away...
...River basin, in which Khabarovsk lies, as the "breadbasket of the Soviet Far East." For hundreds of miles, from Vladivostok on north, industry has been built up as well. Across the border, in the Chinese provinces of Heilungkiang and Kirin, industry is also thriving: the great manufacturing cities of Harbin (steel) and Changchun (trucks) play a vital role in the Chinese economy...
...Hsin-fa, breathlessly declared to his unit, "I saw Chairman Mao swimming. He is in excellent health!" With the typical enthusiasm of the enlisted man about such tidings, his buddies chorused, "We feel as happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news. In a Canton hospital, a navy hero awoke from anesthesia after a brain operation to proclaim: "This joyful news is most inspiring. It is a great happiness to us all that Chairman...
Joan plays Lucy Harbin, who, catching her husband abed with another woman, breaks up the affair with an ax. She is adjudged insane and committed to an asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner...
...charity arrangement. For the Brown family, the sale has double appeal: the Brown Foundation will be able to diversify its investments, and George Brown will stay on as president of Brown & Root. For Halliburton, the purchase is primarily a way of hedging its bets. Said Halliburton Vice President John Harbin: "The oil industry in general is troubled with excess production and capacity, and we see no immediate hope of things improving. We're trying to develop a cushion, and all we would like is for Brown & Root to keep going as well...