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China took a long stride toward democracy last week, and a long stride toward fulfilling the purposes of its late great revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Like the ascent to his hilltop tomb, which China's leaders make reverently each year, China's climb had been long and hard. Dr. Sun had foreseen a period of national "tutelage" under the Kuomintang (National People's Party) until direct power was returned to the people through constitutional rule. On Christmas Day, in the third reading of China's new Constitution, that democratic return was inaugurated...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...
...Japanese capacity for reverence may merely have substituted one god for another. The new deity is General MacArthur himself. The worship has been fed by the General's dramatic aloofness. He lives behind a white concrete wall on a towering hilltop; his paneled office is seldom visited by a Japanese. When he steps out into his long black Cadillac, crowds gather to gaze at the man who, rumor says, is descended from Amaterasu, the sun-goddess...
...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...
Wright's latest, a country house for wealthy stockbroker Gerald Loeb, has yet to be built, but a 6 ft. by 12 ft. model went on view last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Designed for a barren hilltop, the Loeb house was to be as low, flat and full of wrinkles as an unmade Japanese...