Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millions. Lo's career in the People's Republic began in 1949 when Mao ordered him to take China's fragmented police forces in hand and transform them into a unified Communist whole. At that moment (the time of the U.S. State Department's White Paper, writing off China), much of the country was in chaos, the Communists' hold was anything but sure, and probably 60% of the existing police were ex-Nationalist holdovers. Simultaneously, Lo had to direct a series of armed struggles with guerrillas and bandit gangs which amounted to a nationwide extension...
...millions of peasants and businessmen who have suddenly swarmed into rural cooperatives and urban state enterprises dislike and distrust the new order as much as they ever did. The same accounts attest that thousands of new organizations, brought into being to brainwash the new recruits, are little more than paper houses. It is predictable that within a few weeks or months the same leaders who now cry triumph will again be berating their terrorist cadres for "rightist lethargy...
...After watching too many movies on TV, RCA Chairman David Sarnoff warned that "the true function of television will have failed if the film programming snowballs so as to become the dominant appeal." In an interview published by the trade paper Variety, Sarnoff holds out little hope that TVmen can save themselves from the movie blight. "Fortunately," he adds, "we have the public and advertisers to decide this for us . . . They may agree with us, or the movies-on-TV networks will take over...
Numerous admirable characters visit Gary's House. There is Captain Scoop -such a hell of a dainty guy (by a boy's standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator...
Another innovation, octopi and reptiles replace the old paper mache monsters of former horror movies. Varnoff's swamp is inhabited by a large collection of crocodiles and poisonous snakes. Unimpressed by these horrors, one skeptical moviegoer commented, "See ya later alligator...