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...American missionary experience in China in the first half of this century. What's more, he's done it in a way which masterfully brings together two awkwardly coexistent branches of the historical novel tradition. Combining the solid factual background of authors like Tuchman or even Michener with the torrid, and sometime, sordid, human details of John Jakes and Harold Robbins. Hersey manages both to inform and to entertain throughout almost 700 pages. And he weaves his complex mosaic around one central, compelling theme--the hidden disaster embedded in the "offer" by the West, and "acceptance" by China...
While Harvard beat up on Greater Boston League and non-league opponents, Princeton swept two Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League doubleheaders. The Tigers (10-2) have a four-game lead over the 2-2 Crimson. Second-place Navy (9-3), has also set a torrid pace...
...hosts held a 43-27 lead at half time (on 53 percent floor shooting), and used torrid second half shooting to coast to their wide margin of victory...
DELRAY BEACH, Fia-Ivan Lendit of Czechoslovakian shook off a sluggish start and Martina Navratilova began at a torrid pace as the two number one seeds powered their way yesterday into the third round of the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships tennis tournament...
...bitter cold snap set record lows across much of the U.S. last week, but on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange torrid trading advanced market indicators toward new highs. On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.01 points, the eighth strongest gain ever. Next day nearly 175 million shares changed hands on the Big Board; it was the busiest activity since October and the fourth heaviest trading day of all time. Analysts attributed the brisk activity to a surge of optimism about the economy. Said Larry Wachtel, first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securities: "There...