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...over the issue of Taiwan's representation, warned the Canadians that allowing the Taiwanese to attend the Olympics under their chosen name, the Republic of China, would violate the terms of Canada's recognition of Peking. (In 1970, Canada recognized the People's Republic, whereupon Taiwan severed ties with Canada.) Canada agreed -while balking at further Peking pressure to oust the Taiwanese entirely...
...gaudy Las Vegas and climb the Sierra Nevadas, pausing at Donner Pass. Here, explains Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George and Jacob Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm. Several members of the party died, whereupon the survivors proceeded to cannibalize the dead. Twain, having now discovered the credit-card culture, suggests that this event gave rise to the Donner's Club. Trollope is puzzled. "Is that like Carte Blanche?" Dickens, who has been dozing, starts. "No!" he cackles. "Cartepurses...
...merge with Cleveland's White Consolidated Industries, a producer of appliances and other products (the two companies were founded by members of the same family, but there has been no corporate connection between them for the past 70 years). Early in May, White Consolidated thumbed down the merger -whereupon John Sheehan, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board, quit as White Motor's president...
...with Martha, George pulls a volume from a shelf of his extensive library and reads: "And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and burdened with a morality too rigid to accomodate itself to the swing of events, must...eventually...fall.' (Such is the nature of Albee's eclectic style), whereupon he shuts the book, shouts to the ceiling, "That's it! Go at it!" and plots his revenge, which ultimately amounts to no more than announcing to Martha, once she re-descends to the living room, that a son they never had, their mythical child, has been killed...
...surrounded by a circle of empty seats. She sought to counteract her alienation by making a full confession of her past links to the FBI. To reporters, radio interviewers and anyone else who would listen, she would pour forth self-criticism and expound on Marxist and Maoist theories. Whereupon both the FBI and the radicals dropped her entirely. Still longing for the thrills of clandestine work, she cultivated ties with San Francisco police, who in turn put her in touch with the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...