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...troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began demanding Formosa's "liberation" from Chiang Kai-shek's "henchmen." The Review's version of life in the U.S. became a red-and-pink patchwork quilt, sewn together from such dependably left-wing sources as the speeches of Howard Fast and George Seldes' news letter In Fact. Wrote the Review: "The United States, in the eyes of the Chinese people, has become the symbol of world reaction...
...Problems. In its 42 years, the Governors' Conference had become a useful invention. In round-table discussions and over friendly drinks, the governors swapped experiences, learned from each other's successes and failures. They tackled problems arising from shared water resources like the Colorado River, discussed the patchwork of state laws which make life miserable for interstate truckers...
...patchwork comedy with some time-tested, surefire slapstick sequences involving lions on the loose. These scenes, dragged in by the heels and worked to the bone, help to bolster a film whose authors apparently never rejected any gag that popped into their heads...
...University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores of other colleges. It had spread to thousands of classes for adults in The Great Books. It was a plan of study that had helped lift U.S. higher education up from the patchwork of specialties and superficials it had become...
...diking and channeling of foreign policy, a patchwork job and subject to inclement weather, was apparent in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's talks with individual newsmen, and with groups of businessmen, in Washington...