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...words, "not to dissipate their virility on sex and their money on prostitutes." In this puritanical atmosphere, the newcomers from the cities - many distinctly bohemian-were regarded with suspicion. That applied to Chiang Ch'ing, the movie actress, who arrived in August 1937. Her journey to Yenan was arduous: she rode in the backs of trucks, and where roads had been destroyed, she had to switch to horseback, although she had never been on a horse before. One mount almost ran away with...
...first novel, Douglas Day, author of a 1974 prizewinning biography of Malcolm Lowry, rings his hero through a number of old narrative changes. Resales is the Hispanic Odys seus on his arduous journey homeward...
...Faculty's long and arduous search for the true nature of "general education" took a quantitative turn during the past few weeks as Francis M. Pipkin, chairman of the Committee on General Education and associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, completed a survey of the Gen Ed program...
...arduous route, which led the snowmobilers along busy, narrow roads, through woods and across ditches, quickly took its toll. A light covering of snow was soon worn away by early starters. Coarse, rutted ditches caused spills; unexpected rocks forced some sleds to veer into guardrails and trees. One driver was hit by a car; ten others got lost on a lake. At day's end only 172 contestants remained in the race...
...only hitch in Byrd's arduous climb to the top may be the secret vote in the 62-Senator Democratic caucus. Head counters give Byrd 30 votes, two 14 short of a majority, and Humphrey 22. Humphrey hopes to pick up the ten votes he needsthat Byrd is acceptable to labor. He wasn't about to go against a sure winner." Humphrey's health also worries Senators, who wonder whether he will have the vitality for the job after undergoing removal of his cancerous bladder. Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer...