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...Power. In World War II, the U.S.S.R. scoffed at strategic bombing, used its aircraft almost exclusively in close support of ground troops. Since the war, and especially since the atomic bomb, the U.S.S.R. has laid more stress on long-range bombers. Today Russia has about 500 TU-45 (its copy of the 6-29) which could bomb most U.S. cities in one-way missions. Russia also has several hundred old four-engined bombers, which might be used for strategic bombing against Europe and Britain, though they would be sitting ducks to modern fighters...
China's scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, former president of Peking National University and Ambassador to Washington from 1938 to 1942, is now in the U.S., a refugee from his country's Red rulers. His son, Hu Szu-tu, 28, is still behind the Bamboo Curtain, has already undergone the so-called "new learning" in political science at the North China Revolutionary University in Peking...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...
...Russians have been able to keep the Western powers guessing about the number of "TU-29s" (the Russian copy of the U.S. 6-29) based at these installations. Many Western observers think that if the TU-29s are present at all, their numbers are probably small-for the time being, anyway. Meanwhile, work on the new airfields is being pushed at top speed. The target date for the completion of at least one long runway and all basic installations had been...
...unassuming young Indo-Chinese student from the Left Bank named Vo Van Tu Quoc began dropping in to chat with Nguyen. The student professed to be a follower of Emperor...