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Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
During the war years, when government duties carried him throughout the country, President Conant nevertheless managed to keep unbroken the string which he will snap with an empty hoe tomorrow...
...plow. We hoe...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Paris Symphony, Copland's Corral Nocturne and Hoe Down, Dohnányi's Suite in F-sharp Minor. Conductor: Milton Katims (see Music...
...Norman Reider, head psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, having completed a study of bastards' fathers, has concluded that they, too, have a pretty rough row to hoe. All kinds of unsettling decisions suddenly confront the unwed father. Should he admit his paternity? Is he sure, after all, that he is the father? Should he marry the girl? Should he feel proud or ashamed of himself...