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...Jose Limón's girl friend had to drag him to his first modern dance recital. That was 17 years ago. He watched the great German dancer Harald Kreutzberg do his "Angel of Last Judgment," turned to the girl and said: "Charlotte, my God, that's what I want to do!" That kind of dancing, he decided, "looked like something a man could do without being ridiculous." Last week, looking far from ridiculous, Jose Limón and his company danced two of his infrequent recitals before sell-out crowds in New York. Critics now rank...
...readers will agree with Author Taylor, many of them will disagree with lim violently. But his book lives up to its title in its picture of men in motion going fast, certainly going somewhere and - for the most part, in Henry Taylor's belief -going in the right direction...
There had been no bubonic plague in Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the plague got its name, the hugely swollen lymph glands of the groin and armpits. Careful laboratory tests confirmed the autopsy findings...
...those content to believe that the plague story was mere propaganda, Dr. Lim had a sharp word...
...Lim's tactful "elsewhere" might well have meant the U.S., where there are no Japanese troops to be infected. But it was pointed out that the U.S. had little cause for alarm. Modern inoculations against bubonic plague cut down its mortality rate; scientific rat hunts and sanitary measures can prevent its spread...