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...ballpoint pen mark on the reading list that it's hourly season once again, that time of year when summer vacation officially ends and the reserve desk at Lamont looks like a rugby scrum...
TIME'S three Americans abroad represent a special blend of journalistic talent and experience, and they treated their subject with enthusiasm and affection. As caught by Demarest's pen and Mydan's camera, todays China comes alive in rare and memorable fashion...
...latter-day Polo, the F.F., comes with camera, tape recorder and ballpoint pen. Thus he returns with certain authenticated truths. He comes also with the knowledge that he is visiting the world's most populous nation, perhaps a billion people inhabiting a land mass only slightly larger than the U.S. It is of course a Communist nation long opposed to America. It is an authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons...
...holding an umbrella?only a security service would probably have such sophisticated gadgetry at hand. Today's secret agents and hit men have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting prussic acid into their faces from a fountain pen; the symptoms made it appear that the men had died of simple heart attacks...
...your list of the top 20 women's soccer teams in New England. (What do you mean, you don't have one!) Focus on the top of the paper. That's right, where it says 1: Brown, 2: Harvard. Now, take out your 89-cent red felt-tip pen and reverse the order of the two top teams...