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...paddle, there is a lot to be said for the kind of unfazable aplomb that only generations of inherited wealth and socially impeccable inbreeding can produce. Tom is captured and brainwashed by the local guerrillas in a test of wills that ends in a draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender...
Charlotte Mao '85, another senior marshall, said it was unfair that Horner would not be able to attend the ceremonies but added. "Dean Bovet is great...
...know that many people realized the [Horner] had an injury," Mao said...
...Letting a hundred flowers blossom," said Chairman Mao, is a sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
...unflinching opposition to Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace Mao Tse-tung with no fear of domestic political trouble. Liberal Democrats Kennedy and Johnson had to fight in Vietnam to prove to the Right that they were no structure in the war against Communism. These domestic American concerns motivated little to the men and women who farmed the rice paddies...