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This was Peking's latest educational sop for its people. From such bits of evidence, as well as from official reports and those of foreign visitors, U.S. and Japanese intelligence agencies have been piecing together a picture of what has happened to Mao Tse-tung's great promise to give his country universal education. The picture now seems clear...
Only once in his testimony did Broady lose his composure-when he told how one of his agents, Geologist Clarence Sop-man, 29, had been murdered in Mexico when he was trying to recover part of $7,000,000 stolen from the Nationalist Chinese government by renegade Lieut...
...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...
Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno professes to have no fear of Communists. This feeling stems from the premature 1948 Communist rebellion, which Soekarno's troops handily broke. Two years ago, thinking it a harmless sop to the political left, Soekarno picked an acknowledged Marxist named Iwa Kusuma-sumantri as his Defense Minister...
...Paris to sop up background about great poets of the past, Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of it," Untermeyer complained to Columnist Art Buchwald. "The rest of us have to teach, write books, compose anthologies ... A poet can't even starve in a garret these days because garrets now are too expensive . . . There is less hospitality for a poet than there ever has been before. The mediums...