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Rather than such splendid but esoteric scenes, Egyptian Painting's editors chose scores of details which are like peeks into the everyday world of numberless days ago. As the pictures show, hunting, fishing, farming, brickmaking, butchering, carpentering, dancing, drinking, feasting and mourning were essentially the same then...
...Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
Died. Anne O'Hare McCormick, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times commentator on foreign affairs and (since 1936) the first woman member of the Times's governing editorial board; of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in England, reared in Ohio, she made numberless trips to Europe (often with her husband, a Dayton importer) for first-hand interviews. A writer of clear, unexcited prose, she cut through much of the nonsense in her field, constantly urged the U.S. to treat its allies with consideration and develop its foreign policy from strength...
...which last year drew some $2,064,572.984 across parimutuel counters, and 2) Mendelian chance-plus-judgment, which governs the horsemen's old and insatiable yearning to breed a horse with more speed and more stamina than the last one. Out of the mating of these two lines come numberless thrills, frequent beauties, many sorrows and not a few ills of commercial horse racing. Racing lives in constant worry of the anti-betting moralizers and of the legislators who write the tax laws (currently, 26 state treasuries are taking an approximate $150 million-a-year cut of the annual betting...
...Secret police: "During my three-year administration as governor of Formosa, hardly a day passed without some bitter struggle with the secret police . . . They made numberless illegal arrests. They tortured and they blackmailed . . . The people . . . only dare to resent but not to speak in the open...