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...cult-leader), last week won first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth's icecaps with atomic energy. The water released will raise the level of the sea, flooding most of the earth except the Central Asian plateau, Yang's stronghold...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...
...rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...
...will be Chen Chi-Mai, counsellor to the Chinese Embassy and wartime assistant to Chiang Kai-Shek, and John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History. The Forum will be moderated by Warren A. Seavey '01, Bussey Professor of Law and formerly head of the law school at Pei Yang University in China...
...with cries of "Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...