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...mean to tell me that they didn't teach you the fine points of wines and whiskeys at Harvard?' " 'No, I'm afraid they didn't,' I would say, prepared for what was to come, for we went through this ritual numberless times...
Street stalls and numberless shops vend glowing jade, laces, lovingly carved woods and ivories from the China mainland (only a mile away), roasted whole pigs, tin bathtubs, hollowed-tree coffins, ancient cures compounded of dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from...
This flexibility lasts throughout the day, which Joe can fill in numberless planned ways, from stripping tobacco to hauling feed in his truck, from supervising the work of a bulldozer, hired for $10 an hour, to stretching fence. The midday quitting time is 11:30 and, after a big meal, Joe stretches out on the parlor floor (which saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin...
...Progressive. One by one on quiet Governors Island the witnesses unfolded a forlorn panorama of windswept P.W. camps by the Yalu, with their squalid mud huts and icy compounds, and their Chinese Communist officers-"Wong" and "Ragmop" and numberless others-who were constantly seeking to brainwash the G.I.s and undermine their allegiance. Aiding the Communists, the witnesses testified, were the G.I. "progressives," and one of their leaders was Sergeant Gallagher. Opposing them in the psychological struggle were G.I. "reactionaries," led by Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate of Augusta, Ga., also a Regular, who used both oral argument and force to keep...
...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...