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Even after cramming all this in a twelve-minute speech, the scholarly Brazilian needed a punch line to show the delegates that they stood at a crossroad. He chose one from Empedocles: "Love or hatred-that is the question...
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
...Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...
...midnight, a U.S. newsman slipped through the windows of the Sian Guest House, evaded sleepy sentries, slopped through the mud of Shensi's capital to a dark crossroad. Muffled, slippered figures challenged him in low tones. Satisfied, the Chinese motioned the foreigner into a v;aiting truck. At dawn the truck was 30 miles beyond the border of Kuomintang China, lurching through the mountains toward Yenan, capital of Communist China. The year...