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Drums and cymbals reverberated across China last week. In every one of the country's 29 provinces and administrative districts, mammoth rallies of 100,000 or more people were staged; in Peking (pop. 8 million) more than 4 million Chinese took part in such rallies. The press was filled with rhetoric praising Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party Politburo...
...World War II, Hughes advocated the building of a gigantic airplane that could fly troops and cargo to the battle zones far above the reach of U-boats. Since metal was in short supply, he constructed his plane from lumber; hence its nickname, the Spruce Goose. Working in a mammoth hangar, which still stands at a Hughes plant in Culver City, Calif., Hughes built the huge eight-engine flying boat, which was as big as today's Boeing...
Harvard may always win, but, as was proven Saturday, not by divine right. The God of Ill Fortune hurled every obstacle short of a torrential whirlpool in the Crimson's course. Mammoth wakes, boat-stopping crabs and sweltering heat plagued the varsity eight...
Yost touched him for a triple in the fourth, scoring on Phil Kornbluth's single, and came back in the eighth to crack a mammoth home run and close out the day's scoring...
...chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in triple-hooped skirts, played acres of white pianos for 100 top-hatted swains. Footlight Parade featured the precision swimming and diving of 150 movie mermaids, filmed from a plate-glass corridor underneath the mammoth pool, all of which cost $10,000 per screen minute. The nostalgia wave of the early '70s brought Berkeley back to Broadway to supervise the production of No, No, Nanette with an intimate chorus of only 34, led by early Berkeley Protegee Ruby Keeler...