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But that small voice and wistful smile need something to set them off. The need is quickly fulfilled-by Linda Low, a buxom, button-nosed stripper from the Celestial Bar, whom the musical's plot casts as Mei Li's rival. Bold, brassy and bubbling with unabashed sex...
Slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of ailing Red Boss Maurice Thorez and herself Communist candidate for the National Assembly, spoke with passion for two hours. She railed against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the...
A couple of untimely 15-yard penalties and a fumbled fumble cost the Crimson football team its chance for a brilliant second-half comeback Saturday. Brown finally nosed out the varsity, 29 to 22.
De Gaulle's triumph, conducted for the most part in discreet silences and behind the scenes, was nonetheless the climax of an epic political struggle. In Algeria, De Gaulle's first objective had always been to break the illicit power of the Committees of Public Safety-the hard...
In three weeks a quarter of a million rounds of Communist artillery fire had raked the island. Roads were slashed up. Entire rows of cedar trees were blasted away. Quemoy City, scarcely scathed when I left, bared its broken windows. Fewer civilians, more soldiers padded through the streets, and the...