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...military headquarters was hardly under way when the Million Heroes, arriving in hundreds of trucks and backed by Chen's soldiers, surrounded the building. In the ensuing confusion, Wang Li and Hsieh Fu-chih were seized by the mob and carried away. Back in Peking, wall posters blossomed overnight with the news that the two Maoists had been "kidnaped, encircled, insulted and beaten...
...Just Warm Bodies. Kelly loftily contends that it is not just hiring out people. Instead, it is dealing in labor "systems." Tapping a work force of 130,000 through 276 offices in the U.S., the company provides teams for programming computers, can muster 50-man cadres for overnight inventories of department stores on a few hours' notice. Tellers trained in a special Kelly program help banks in 40 cities get through Monday and Friday rush hours. And an IBM 360 computer at Kelly's Detroit headquarters keeps track of a roster of Kelly technicians, including draftsmen and engineers...
...marriage. When their honeymoon plans fall through, the couple stay on in the house, and Bennett remains incapacitated. "One doesn't miss what one's never had," the bride (Hayley Mills) assures him. But a month later, she miserably confides her troubles to her mother-and overnight the truth is known all over their drab industrial town...
...find an opening in his field. He meets with little race prejudice; the students hate him-less for the color of his skin than for the shade of his opinions. Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults overnight by lecturing them on deportment and making them read books they cannot hope to understand. Like other teachers in the school, he gets nowhere...
...extract the flavor from a 6-in. vanilla bean (bury a 1-in. cutting from the bean for a month in a pound of sugar). Once when a hostess in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., complained that a case of turtle soup had not arrived, a Pierce salesman took an overnight train to deliver it in person - just in time for her party...