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...American Fathers of the Divine Word have operated the Roman Catholic Fu Jen University (current enrollment: 1,100). Last week, Peiping radio announced that Fu Jen had become the first of China's 15 missionary-backed universities to be seized by the Communist government. Education Minister Ma Hsu-lun explained blandly: "The government decided to take over ... to protect the people's rights...
Thirty years ago British police in Malaya imported 50 headhunting Dvaks from the jungles of North Borneo. Their mission was to hunt down the robber chieftain Chang Lun, whose little band of terrorists ruled the Kinta valley in the border state of Perak, the British Empire's richest tin-mining zone. Armed with six-foot sumpitans (blowpipes) and keen, long-bladed parangs, the naked warriors snaked through the jungles to Chang Lun's hideout and nabbed their...
...rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...about time someone debunked this Irving Berlin legend. First "Holiday Lun" and then "This Is the Army" have been heralded by hysterical press-agents as practically music of the spheres, Berlin as the greatest song writer in America. Put aside for a moment the marvelous memories of the spirit of "This is the Army," put aside the personalities of Crosby and Astaire, and run over all two dozen of the songs from these shows. If you can remember more than six, you must admit than the add up to a poor total...
...Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years of suffering, throughout his 15 operations, he has never uttered a word of complaint. Patient and resigned, secure in his fame, he spins out his last thoughts, and basks...