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...Yangtze River, standing atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking, greeting a visiting dignitary. Last week, after yet another tantalizing absence, Mao was back again, this time to welcome Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie to Peking. As one of the 27 aides who accompanied the Lion of Judah told it, the Chairman seemed in the pink. Mao "was smiling and waved his arms to greet his royal visitor," he reported. As the two leaders began their private 105-minute talk, Mao was "in a very good mood, ready to make jokes...
...Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Aram, Canaan and Amalek, but always singly; never in 3,500 years was the whole Middle East united against us." When Ben-Gurion first came to Israel from Poland in 1906 under his original name, David Gryn (his Hebrew name means "son of a lion cub"), he found a land "both loved and desolate"-and underpopulated. "In 1906, my greatest wish was to see a population of 500,000 Jews in this country," he said last week. "Now we need 8,000,000." Noting that the population is currently 3,000,000, Ben-Gurion writes...
...success spawned a host of imitators, including amusement extravaganzas called Six Flags in Dallas, St. Louis and Atlanta. Chicagoans were given the opportunity to celebrate Christmas year round at Santa's Village, Houstonites to take flights of fancy at the 100-ride Astroworld, and animal lovers to join Lion Country Safaris in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach...
...Most of Britain's allies, though officially silent, were delighted by London's daring move. Some, however, privately expressed nervousness about the Soviet reaction. For most Britons, the case of the drunken defector gave rise to an exhilarating feeling that the lion had not lost all of its roar. The Foreign Office, its reputation tarnished for two decades by the Burgess-MacLean-Philby case, seemed enveloped in euphoria. The Manchester Guardian weakly applauded...
Along with Renery, Rein lost six other starters from the best Lion team in recent years, but he appears to still possess enough talent to post a winning records...