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...inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...
...land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras* before the first snows...
...imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
Kite Flying Resumed. Last spring Phibun entered Bangkok's municipal kite flying contest. To Siamese, this was a perfectly plain sign that he was coming out of political retirement. His personal astrologer, Chalaem, had found that Phibun's stars indicated rising power from March 26 onward. Phibun opened his pine-shaded bungalow in Bangkok's suburbs. There he told the press: "I was fed up with retirement, so I bought kites. But kite flying is not so interesting as politics. ... I am forming a new party with the slogan, 'Right Is Might...
...Night. Zaslavsky was not always a Lenin idolator. In the year (1900) when Lenin founded his first illegal news paper, Zaslavsky, too, had become a revolutionary. But he chose to join the Jewish General Social-Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later...