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A special train from Moscow rolled into the Peking railroad station one afternoon last week and stopped before a greeting committee of 1,500-odd bureaucrats. Out stepped 34 Russian ballerinas, composers and scientists and the 260-member Soviet Army Red Flag Song & Dance Ensemble. Forward rushed 150 Chinese Young...
The printing presses rumbled their accompaniment. From Vice Minister of Health Fu Lien-chang came a long eulogy of Soviet medicine; from Feminist Teng Yingchao (wife of Premier Chou Enlai), a brochure extolling Soviet standards in marriage and personal relations.
British counteraction was swift and drastic. Thousands of Kikuyu tribesmen fled in terror to the mountains as troop carriers and armored cars rumbled through the native reserves kicking up clouds of red dust. Kenya cops tracked down "suspects" with bloodhounds, arrested thousands of Kikuyu who got in the way. The...
"Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result...
Is Alcohol Sin? The All-Drys opened up with a learned distillation of the theology of antialcoholism. "Drunkenness," cried Belgian All-Dry Abbe Maas in summation, "is a mortal sin." Then the medicine men got down to figures. In Sweden, said Gunnar Nelker, ten times as many alcoholics get divorces...