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...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...
...professed nunhood in a "gambler's spirit." uttering a pathetic, near-blasphemous prayer: "O God−if there is a God−let what I am going to do be right . . ." She persists in trying to be a good nun for yet another decade−evidently from a stubborn prideful refusal to admit to herself that she has made a great mistake...
Despite eight years of Red rule, there remain millions of Chinese, including the uncounted inside China itself, who maintain a stubborn faith that China will again be free. Each year on "Double Tenth" (the tenth day of the tenth month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails...
This year stubborn, aging (69) Chiang Kai-shek could point to rumblings of revolt inside Red China, noted with grim defiance: "The question of material requirements, including manpower and other considerations, is not a major deterrent. What is more serious is that there seems to be a lack of self-confidence among some of us. There is a tendency to magnify the difficulty of achieving a final victory...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...