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...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head. "Wo pu-tung, wo pu-tung (I do not understand, I do not understand...
...internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier, to give physicians a look as much as 500 times clearer than with ordinary fluoroscopes...
...Wo Tou. Peking University had survived the long war only by moving, lock, stock & barrel, 800 miles to Changsha, then trekking another 1,000 miles over mountains to Kunming. Back home again, Peking is still on the razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five...
Chinese Communists, of course, were delighted. Shanghai's Communist Newsletter offered a straight-faced explanation of Wedemeyer's stern talk: "His name is pronounced wo-ti-mai-ya, which means 'my stepfather.' "Actually, the official transliteration stood for something many Chinese thought just as apt: "lofty surpassing virtue...