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...Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and yards. Bridges bristled with mudbrick pillboxes, defensive moats and brushworks...
...nation's first housewife, Mitty González is confidante and adviser to most of Chile's other housewives. In her office at La Moneda (Chile's White House) she puts in a seven-hour day answering the hundreds of letters they write, asking her for everything from recipes to help in finding a new house. One correspondent recently begged for the President's old brown suit so that her husband could go on a religious pilgrimage...
Airline Hostess. Nehru has no private plane. On the seven-hour regular flight from New Delhi to Madras he dozed a little and read snatches from a novel. But most of the time he walked the airplane's aisle, performing the duties of an airline hostess-adjusting ventilating valves, checking on safety belts, arranging women's wraps and generally making the passengers more comfortable...
...easy engagement to win. The seven-hour whole of Henry IV is a magnificent but multiform, a spacious but sprawling stage piece. Large as it is, even the two-part play is a rounded fragment of something larger-of that turbulent pageant of ambition and treachery, of glory and vainglory, known as Shakespeare's chronicle plays. Even that greatest asset of Henry IV-the bestriding presence of Falstaff-remains a possible peril, for it requires notable performing to do him justice...
...Nazi Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," had any professional interest left, he must have been amused at the bungling British. The British military executioner, known only as Pierrepont, had laid out a seven-hour schedule of ceremony and work just to hang eleven people. That would have been small potatoes to Kramer; 45,000 had died by torture, starvation and gas in his Belsen concentration camp...