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...where the steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks...
Hard to Die. Last week fog and rain began moving down from the Manchurian plains toward the South China coast. Winter brings the end of the growing season, the end of the opportunity to steal food from fields and gardens, or even of scrounging the hills for edible leaves and roots. Winter also brings the need for warm clothes and warming fires. But as Red China enters its fourth winter since the Great Leap Forward, clothing and fuel are in nearly as short supply as food...
...next play, Say, Darling, he was cast as an overcarbonated young producer. One actress recalls. "I had to walk the streets of New Haven with Bobby every goddam night. He kept saying how awful he was. He bit his nails and cried. The cast hated him. He was stealing the show." Steal it he did, with a devastating caricature of Broadway Producer Hal Prince; but in his next appearance, as Richard Miller in Take Me Along, he failed to steal top honors from the masterful Jackie Gleason, and had to settle merely for superb notices...
Courtship involves frequent group horseplay, encounters on lonely mountain trails, and participation in wild fiestas. Picking up a girl at a Vicos fiesta is simple. Steal her hat and she chases you through the milling crowd; head for the nearest isolated cornfield where you may, if you wish, return her hat. When a couple becomes "serious," the girl will come--with parental permission--to live in the boy's home...
...vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly all scientists, who speak scornfully of the old-style "fat cops who steal apples." Straightforwardly acted, it is an absorbing story of men rather than dum-de-dum-dum bunnies...