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...Paradox. Is this the true picture of China today? Not according to Communist films and propaganda. They show happy, husky children gamboling in village nurseries, smiling Kazakh herdsmen shearing fat sheep on the Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves...
This is the paradox behind the China debate: a country that seeks the status of a world power, that defies both Washington and Moscow, that is driving to produce nuclear bombs, cannot even feed its own people...
...much of the world's weather. It holds 90% of all the ice on the earth's surface (far more than formerly thought), affects the surrounding oceans for hundreds or thousands of miles in all directions. For such reasons, Antarctica is a land of mystery and paradox-and a priceless laboratory for the world's scientists. Last week, as the southern summer moderated Antarctica's frigid climate, some 160 U.S. scientists and 100 scientists from other nations stepped up their activity in a friendly race to unlock the secrets of the white continent...
Three internationally known architects will give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for the year 1961-62. Felix Candela of Mexico will open the annual lectureship on the arts and literature with a talk on "The Paradox of Structuralism," Thursday...