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...when the U.S.A.F. plane in which they were passengers was shot down in 1952 over North Korea (according to the U.S.), over Red China (according to the Red Chinese). Downey is serving a life sentence, Fecteau 20 years, both on a charge of espionage, in Peking's Tsao Lan-tzu prison. ¶Businessman Hugh Francis Redmond Jr., 41, arrested in 1951 in Shanghai, subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment, also on an espionage charge. He is in a Shanghai jail...
...Lan Xang. A branch of the Thai peoples, the Lao were driven out of southern China by Kublai Khan in the 13th century and fled south to the valleys of the Mekong behind a legendary king, Khun Borom, who rode "a white elephant with beautiful black lips and eyelids." There was, a century later, a brief foray at empire. King Fah Ngum, born with a set of 33 pointed teeth, grabbed all of present-day Laos and part of Thailand by elephant charge and labeled it all Lan Xang Horn Khao, "Land of the Million Elephants...
...stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand-wringing pleas (''the motherland cannot abandon its sons!"). There were only three leaders with the dynamism to rally the European extremists of Algiers-General Raoul Sa-lan, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde and Jacques Soustelle. once both a Cabinet member and close friend of De Gaulle. Not one of them was in either Algeria or France. General Salan has been sulking in Spain for six weeks. Young, red-bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, given "provisional liberty'' by the military...
John Damis; Jack Downing and Lyle Micheli; lan Pasley-Tyler; and Keith Julian, respectively, are sidelined with the above injuries...
...mankind, Pasternak is a symbol of the "élan to good" which he believes is the spirit of the coming age, even in Soviet Russia. As Dr. Zhivago puts it, "I believe that man is only drawn to goodness through good." In Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak has fulfilled his personal definition of the highest purpose of art: to create "an image of man [that] is greater than man," thus leading him to nobler realms of being. He also reminds men that Christ and the Christ-in-everyman is the last best hope of earth. In a perplexed, ravaged and despairing...