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...Miltons have a fairly unique perspective on the Chinese experience from 1964 to 1969. As Americans teaching English at the Peking First Foreign Language Insitute, they were in the middle of the factional disputes that tore apart university campuses throughout China, as well as being involved in the debates within Peking's small foreign community. Their narrative is interwoven with description of the events in their own microcosm of China's students, giving the book the sense of being a traveller's tale as well as a well-researched academic work. Like William Hinton's Fanshen, The Wind...
When his first-string caddy tore an Achilles' tendon at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, last week, Jack Nicklaus Sr. brought up a substitute to carry his clubs in the British Open -Jack Nicklaus Jr. At 14, the 6 ft. 2 in. Nicklaus fils is already down to a five handicap, but as he watched his father practice, he promised to hold his tongue. "Believe me," he said, "I would never tell him what club to use." Out on the course, however, that promise proved easier to break than par: "When I asked for a six-iron," reported Jack...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...
Walker, playing at number one, downed Paul Miller, 6-3, 6-2, while A1 Bunis tore Larry Wolf apart...
...letters was this big, bulky, official-looking thing, with a big seal on it, and 'Return within five days to PHYLLIS J. RUTLEDGE, CIRCUIT CLERK, Kanawha County Courthouse, Charleston, West Virginia.' It was my absentee ballot, and, like any other first-time voter, I tore it open eagerly...