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...China as an imperialist luxury. At Loyang, in Honan province, twelve primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good relaxation...
Division of Labor. At the Red Scarf factory, students work according to a "rational division of labor." Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery...
...thousand tensions will sweep across the Yale stands today. What will my girl think of me? Will she cast her blue scarf aside? Can we grasp onto something new that will hold us together? Maybe snooker, or books, or walks in the country? Could we go away, she and I, go away to some place where no one knows us? But what about that job at the agency? I mean, won't they think Yale isn't the same any more? That Yale doesn't demand to win? That Yale will play even if she doesn...
...first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of France. The grey, windswept day, with leaves blowing across the garden, had an autumnal look, as did the two figures involved-one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers and officials crowded around, De Gaulle pinned to Churchill's overcoat the two-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Order of Liberation, the highest decoration of the Free French...
...blustering that "all I have to do is wink" to get Communist aid, put on a broad smile and invited U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones to a garden party in the President's countryside palace in Java. Partners in a loose-limbed, international version of the native scarf dance: Jones and Brenda Pavlic, wife of the Yugoslav ambassador, Sukarno and Mrs. James C. Baird Jr., wife of the ICA Director for Indonesia...