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Cumshaw derives from the Chinese kam sia (grateful) and entered U.S. naval argot during the 19th century when ships calling at Canton began swapping rum and ratguards for labor and litchi nuts. Today's scrounger can be an Air Cav supply sergeant or an Air Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit...
policy is simply to hang on and hope for what someone in the State Department may yet call "Chinev"-the evolution of Red China. The notion is that through contacts with the outside world, China will become subject to outside ideas, gradually learn responsibility, like Rus sia develop a desire for a better, softer life and, as a result, take a softer line...
...disclose to Considine. One version of the plan came from South Carolina's Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who said last week that he heard it ex plained by MacArthur in 1956. Mac-Arthur, said Dorn, urged Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles to threaten Rus sia with complete rearmament of Germany and Japan, "possibly including nuclear power," unless Russia agreed to live up to its Yalta and Potsdam promises to allow political self-determination by the peoples of Eastern Europe...
...rest of the program in any way noteworthy. Miss Dorothy Crawford, who has a pleasant voice, was the soloist in a secular cantata, Non sa che sia Dolore, attributed (maliciously) to J. S. Bach; the Orchestra's strings played Purcell's Fantasia on One Note with as much life as a bagpipe; and everybody fretted over the overture to Mozart's Impresario like gummed velvet...
...dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...