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...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles were as clearly delineated as in anatomical drawings and whose eyes were black and full of misery. His landscapes, too, had a withered look. "The sun in Gruber's sky," one critic wrote, "is never warm enough to take...
...hollow victory. Malan denounced this "gross interference in the internal affairs of both South-West Africa and South Africa," went right ahead with plans for an Aug. 30 election in South-West-from which he has barred the colored seven-eighths of its population...
Population-wise, the city of the future may be little more than a glorified workroom, railroad station and parking lot-crowded by day, empty and echoing by night. Around the hollow center, circle on concentric circle, would lie the teeming suburbs. Beyond them, only the open farm land and the lonely lights of farmhouses, sprouting television antennas...
...cover picture of President Truman ... set me to wondering how one man could hold the destiny of this great nation in the hollow of his head...