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...Communist leaders were willing to make concessions abroad in order to be free to work out their quarrels in peace at home. First Khrushchev and Mikoyan went to Red China to insure Mao's friendship with promises of new industrial supplies. Then they ate crow at the lean table of the renegade Tito, where Nikita stayed drunk most of the time. After that came the parley at the summit, which they bought into cheaply by freeing Austria. But for all the sweet talk at Geneva, the Russians were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real...
...Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. As the shaven-headed Marine boots popped to attention, McKeon gazed coldly around and snapped: "Fall out in two minutes." The men-mostly 17-and 18-year-olds-grabbed for their caps and fatigue jackets, scrambled for the door, formed outside the barracks. Lean, usually soft-spoken Matt McKeon, 31, rapped out a crisp command and, using a broomstick for support on his lame side, hobbled off briskly into the moonless South Carolina night. The 74 boots of Platoon 71 followed him toward the salt tidal marshes of Parris Island, where death was waiting...
...Backbone." Melvin Wilhelm is a lean, saddle-brown man who has lived all of his 50 years on Edwards Plateau and runs a sheep and cattle ranch near the little town of Menard (pop. 2,000). Last week Wilhelm looked out across the gaunt and tortured hills of his range and stubbornly...
...mother, while Tenley glided into the "school figures," the required set of tight patterns that each contestant had to trace and retrace with geometric certainty. Around the smooth curves of a figure eight pretty Pre-Med Student Albright floated through her intricate gyrations. She was careful to lean so that she rode on only one edge of her hollow-ground blades, careful to switch from edge to edge without "flatting," i.e., scraping the ice with both edges at once, careful always to give the appearance of complete control...
...Lean Years. In Pittsburgh, W. Z. Sulenski finally paid a $6.01 Equitable Gas Co. bill dated Dec. 8, 1926, explained that the delay was caused by "pressing financial problems...