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Last month, after Richard Nixon announced his plans to travel to Peking, Eastland ordered the report released. Titled The Human Cost of Communism in China, it is the work of Dr. Richard L. Walker, a University of South Carolina scholar known among his fellow Sinologists as a staunch supporter of the Chinese Nationalists. By Walker's reckoning, as many as 3,034,000 were killed in the civil war, the Sino-Japanese War and the Korean War. "Several million landlords" died during the 1949-52 land reform, up to 2,000,000 Chinese during the 1958-61 Great Leap...
China scholarship is nothing if not passionate. One feud at Yale in the early 1960s involved husband-wife Historians Arthur and Mary Wright and Political Scientist David Rowe. The Yale Daily News had a field day describing the "Rowe-Wright row." Rowe, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, attacked the Wrights, who backed a more pragmatic policy toward Peking, for being too far left...
...subjects and even in his deepening hysteria for a son, by her husband and King. Finally, we see her as a sick and aged woman, bewildered by events that have taken from her both husband and crown. As Henry's last Queen, Rosalie Crutchley effectively plays a staunch Catherine Parr, a waspish and religious woman with pursed face and stern views on a woman's duty both to Christ and to her husband. Miss Crutchley's Catherine is determined and unyielding as she saves herself from what was becoming the almost inevitable trip to the Tower...
...path to the movement, in or out of communes, is often littered with drugs. The Way, an 18-year-old, offbeat and minor theological group now virtually taken over and greatly expanded by the Jesus People, has two staunch supporters in Wichita, Kans.: prominent Lawyer Dale Fair and his wife, who got involved when a Way evangelist helped their daughter off drugs. One of the San Francisco pioneers, Ted Wise, has been so successful with drug cures that he now has a new clinic in Menlo Park. Washington, D.C., movement leader Denny Flanders tells drug users: "You can use drugs...
...class Irishman whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive and a labor leader, a rarity when set against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that...