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Once down on the farm, most of the exiles face the undignified task of learning to live and work as ordinary peas ants do. They must learn to plant and harvest, dig and hoe, and above all to obey their rugged old peasant mentors.
Chinese Torture. Grey, a rugged but wiry six-footer, has become tense and pale under this peculiar form of Chinese torture. At the second of two 20 minute visits that British diplomats have been allowed to pay him in 17 months, he complained of chest pains, reported that a Communist...
· TACKLES: Joe Greene, North Texas State, 6 ft. 4 in., 274 Ibs.; and Rolf Krueger, Texas A & M, 6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs. Pumping his arms and legs like pistons, Greene is a kind of fearsome onesome. Says one scouting report: "He's tough and mean and...
Other companies in the field have long been tempted to challenge IBM in the courts, but they have lacked the resources. They also feared that IBM-which controls many of the industry's patents, and licenses its competitors to use them-might not take too kindly to any outfit...
Head Start on Heaven. By the end of the 14th century, miniaturists had become highly sophisticated and confidently eclectic, adopting whatever suited them out of Hellenic, Byzantine or Oriental styles. The Gaston miniaturist was keenly observant of nature, as his grazing mountain goats testify. When it came to portraying the...