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...laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped out of sight while for six hours the products of peace trod by: paratroopers, light and heavy tanks (Soviet-made), howitzers, armored cars, and 400,000 civilians, pulling floats and flaunting menacing banners. Mao arrived at the scene in a shiny cultural contribution...
...city's ordeal began in the spring of 1950: five cases cropped up, caught hold, and multiplied with raging speed. By winter, 1,459 schoolchildren had infected scalps, and the Soo was in the midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy...
...Haven schoolchildren, "protected" against germs by ultraviolet lamps, got sick as often as "unprotected" kids...
...officials in Paris last week proudly displayed the winners in the biggest painting contest of the season. The competing artists: 700,000 European schoolchildren, aiming for $4,000 of ECA prize money. Theme: "The free peoples work together for a better life...
...stood in the cold outside rich men's houses for hours waiting for a dropped coin. Once he knelt begging for three days outside an official's mansion. By 1896, his persistence had earned him enough to build three schools and make him a legend among Chinese schoolchildren...