Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 25 years there were striking changes in the people of Shanghai. In the old days, it was hard for a foreigner to walk along the Bund-the wide promenade along the Whangpoo, which has been renamed Chung Shan Road -without a procession of beggars, cripples and the just plain curious following behind. Walking to work in the old days, I had developed my own special clientele of beggars who got paid off each day, and who in return fended off the other beggars. Now the beggars and cripples were gone, but the ranks of the curious had grown...
JOHN J. HOGAN '73. Hogan lives in Jamaica Plain...
After climbing what seemed like an acre of white marble stairs, up a cascading red carpet, we were herded into position on a three-tiered platform erected especially for group portraits with the Premier. Immediately in strode Chou, brisk and businesslike, and very trim in a plain gray tunic with matching gray trousers. A miniature Chairman Mao button pinned to his tunic gave the only dash of color to his outfit. The guests applauded the Premier, and Chou, still unsmiling, clapped in return. Floodlights snapped on and the official photographer cranked off three exposures. Then everybody trailed after the Premier...
...years for its racial battles in Frankfurt than its prowess in maneuvers. Britain's volunteer Army of the Rhine, on the other hand, is the best field force in Western Europe. But with only 50,000 men it is too small to defend Germany's vast northern plain...
...WOULD BE PLAIN silly to suggest that Radcliffe women should reject the opportunities that now await them, that we should throw it all away and say "How can we cruise through graduate school, when we never fought for the right to be here?" But we can grasp the connection between ourselves and the women who made us shudder two years ago. We can begin to understand what it was that influenced the swing toward granting some women their due: it was the phenomenon of women pooling talents and resources to make themselves heard...