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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major setback, but it hasn't been fatal. It's like a boil has been lanced. I feel a sense of relief and relaxation. I'm not worried any longer about making a mistake. I don't have to try to carefully thread the needle. When you're not trying to do that, you can do your best. It's the only way to win. I've always done better as an underdog. I'm not sure I'm an underdog now, but I know I've got an uphill...
...feeling it had on Monday. Time to say good bye to Peking, and the thrill is diminishing fast. It is almost as if the American presidency has been stolen from the nation for a few days, taken off in the mists of China and held there. There is the thread of television that beams back the story of ceremony, what there is of it, and sight seeing, but fails to give a sense of the inner working between Mao, Chou and Nixon. There is less here than meets the eye, of course, but even a little is a lot after...
Tough Line. We hear about the three disciplines (obey orders in all your actions; do not take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses; turn in everything captured), and the eight points for attention (speak politely; pay fairly for what you buy; return everything you borrow; pay for anything you damage; do not hit or swear at people; do not damage crops; do not take liberties with women; do not ill-treat captives). Keng makes no direct mention of the U.S. or of the social imperialists (the Russians), but his line is tough. "The danger of world...
...Russian history and economics, Trotsky swings into the highlights of the 1905 St. Petersburg uprising like a man directing a painter of social-realist murals. He describes the January massacre of peaceful petitioners in front of the czar's palace -the Bloody Sunday that snapped the last thread of respect for the monarchy. In the last three months of the year, anger and discontent erupted in workers' strikes and military mutinies in Russia's major cities. After 50 days of what Trotsky called "ruthless object lessons," the czar and his Black Hundreds restored a kind of order...
...Mystery Writers of America as the best first mystery of 1968. His second, Mongo's Back in Town, was bought for $25,000 and turned into a TV movie that was shown last November. Like Johnson's others, Case Load-Maximum amply displays his ability to thread a meticulous plot line through the grit and slime of an urban netherworld where everyone has an angle too sharp for his own good...