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...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
...There was a kind of dignity, a kind of apprehension in their approach," one spectator noted. "Yeh, sort of like a pilgrimage," another added. But soon the whole beach crowd was jumping into the cascade of suds, which came up to their knees, thighs, armpits. One plump sculptress plunked herself down, let the foam flow over her. Explained a Happener: "I'm exposing the five senses to a completely irrational environment." The suds were harmless, and they sent Kaprow into raptures. Said he: "It was like tons and tons of danger kissing you like a powder puff...
...they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions are good enough to hang in both the Chicago Art Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Wahleah was properly tearful...
...Plump Raisin. Pat's publicity problems were the least of the White House headaches. As the months ticked off, Social Secretary Bess Abell, Distaff Press Secretary Liz Carpenter and their combined staffs of seven became al most totally engrossed in nuptial arrangements, letting routine social functions pretty much run themselves. Mrs. Carpenter coped with staggering demands for invitations and information from all over the world. She also worked out an embargo system and a schedule of minutia-laden releases in order to control the flow of information. Last week's wedding-cake handout was replete with detail, down...
...best of Spain's eating-olive crop is bugged. The pestiferous Dacus fly, or Dacus oleae-a kissin' cousin of the U.S. fruit fly-is nibbling its way through millions of gallons of plump Queen olives and slimmer, tarter Manzanillas. Seville and surrounding territory in western Andalusia produce 98% of the world's green eating olives, and the U.S. buys 75% of them. U.S. importers say that wholesale prices for Manzanillas have already risen 15%-from $34 to $39 per fanega (16 gal.). Queens are 50% more expensive-at $20 to $30 per fanega. But because...