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...swung in over Shansi's western border we looked down on an expanse of craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds...
...money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill. And how we share our treasures with our neighbors! That's a tale in itself...
When it came to tackling, the same attitudes prevailed. The Big Red line tackled viciously. Harvard linemen, however almost fell over backwards to hug the Cornell ball-carriers. But the latter seemed to avoid the fraternal show of Ivy League affection...
...your own home and matriculate!" cooed the announcer. "Hug the radio and become a college student! In cooperation with the University of Louisville, WHAS presents for the first time over any standard commercial station a college course for credit...
Cold Perfectionists. But there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...