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Paddles & Policemen. Next day, on the road to Shan States, Burmans lined up once again to eye the visitors in expressionless curiosity. Here and there, well-drilled schoolchildren called out a greeting: "Bulganin, Khrushchev, mar bar sai!" (Long live Bulganin and Khrushchev). At one point, after the party had passed, a Western reporter decided to experiment: "John Foster Dulles!" he prompted the kids. "Doolis, mar bar sai!" they sang out obediently...
...Greedy labor unions and inept management are driving other newspapers out of business," he says. "I hope they don't, really, because I like to see variety. But one thing I know. The Mirror will flourish. And I shan't rest until the Pictorial overtakes the News of the World [the Sunday paper which, at 7,971,000 has the highest circulation on earth]. We won't be buying anything else for a while, though. We'll have to digest this lot before we look for our next meal...
...cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very high-toned. "I could sue some people, including some newspapers," cried Mrs. Stevenson, "but I shan...
...along the way, he turns up quotable but anonymous sources. Says "a scientist" of life in the atomic wilds: "Our experiments have grown so dangerous that we've had to withdraw into regions once inhabited by outlaws. Who knows whether we shan't come to the same sort of end? Captured, lynched, hanged-perhaps society will want to make us the scapegoat for all this damage...
...ignore his grim joke about suicide, but Marc would not let them. "By the way," he told his favorite fishing companion a few weeks ago, "I want you to have my fishing equipment. I'm killing myself at the end of this month, you know, and I shan't need it any more...