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...this time Chiang had become a world figure. But to 80% of the Chinese people -the peasants-he was still little known. Their attitude could be expressed in the bitter story of the farmer whose homestead had been overrun by both the Nationalists and the Communists. "Which side," he was asked, "is better...
...When a movie theater in Angier, N.C. (pop. 1,028) scheduled a sex picture called Mom and Dad ("Bold! Shocking! The Secrets of Sensible Sex"), it was overrun by an unmanageable crowd. Firemen had to wet down the crowd with a hose before the picture could be shown to an all-male audience...
...G.I.s fought gallantly, Howlin' Mad Smith relates. Bodies piled high before their guns. Their ammunition ran out. Then they were overrun, partly because their own 3rd Battalion made no attempt to shift over to help stop the fanatical Japs. The attack was finally halted by Marine artillerymen and a Reserve Army infantry regiment, after U.S. troops had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Smith then yanked the 27th out of the line, never let them do any more fighting in the Marianas...
...eleventh, has all the characteristics of its predecessors that have made Dr. Douglas one of the most popular of living novelists. The story begins in the reign of Herod, with the marriage of his son Antipas to an Arabian princess, Arnon. Herod, fearing that the Romans are going to overrun his country, has arranged the marriage with the King of Arabia, to seal a treaty uniting these ancient enemies. The marriage works out badly. Town life and the elaborate ceremonials of the court distress the Arab girl brought up in freedom on the desert; and when Antipas, bored, takes...
...there any future for Christian missions in China? Yes-but not for the institutionalized missions of the recent past. To make any headway in a China overrun by Communism, missionaries will have to go back to Christian beginnings. So says Journalist Robert Root of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, just back from a tour of the Orient...