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...ideological war! And mainly for a dead ideology! This must not happen, ever! ... So give them their ideology! Let the Chinese leaders glory in it for a while. And for that matter, let them shoulder the whole sackful of unfulfillable international obligations, let them grunt and heave and instruct humanity and foot all the bills for absurd economies (a million a day just for Cuba) and let them support all the terrorists and guerrillas in the Southern Hemisphere too, if they like...
...games and lost but 141. Though the straitlaced deacon of the Christian Church looks hopelessly out of sync with today's loose and kinky players, Wooden, 63, gets them to play his brand of basic basketball year after year. The days are past when Wooden would instruct players to wear high-topped black sneakers, but he still concentrates on the proper execution of every move, from dribbling to blocking shots...
...spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes fantasy, but they were always intended to instruct. His last major work (1971), in the garden of Mexico City's Hotel de Mexico, is a 48,000-sq.-ft. mural called March of Humanity and the Earth Toward Infinite Space...
Much of the flying doctors' work is preventive. "To be an effective doctor in Africa, you must go to the patients," says Wood. "If you wait for them to come to you, they just die." The doctors and nurses make regular rounds of villages and rural hospitals to instruct people in proper sanitation and nutrition, and to conduct vaccination campaigns. But some of the missions are more urgent. The doctors have flown into the Tanzanian bush to operate on a nun who broke both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged...
...Egyptian and Syrian armed forces. They not only replaced the enormous Arab losses of the 1967 war but delivered hundreds of additional tanks and planes. They gave the Egyptians and Syrians sophisticated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, including the potent SA-6 missile, as well as advisers to instruct the Arabs in their...