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...would be all too easy to pass off President Eisenhower's campaign for re-election as a species of "leap-year liberalism" that may succeed in returning the President to the White House, but will surely send the rest of the nation back down the road to the Crystal Palace. Granted, there was justification for fearing such an about-face in 1952, when the General was something of an uninitiated commander crusading for the wrong side. At the head of a party which had spent the previous twenty years blocking every major social advance, he seemed like a quarterback...
...times, often inundating whole counties and killing hundreds of thousands of people. It greedily eats up millions of tons of precious Chinese earth each year, and contributes to droughts by draining the eroded earth. Though Chinese peasants have dreamed longingly of a day when its muddy waters would run crystal-clear to the sea, the "River of Sorrow" has defied every attempt to conquer...
Last week the peasants were being asked to believe a startling promise. By the fall of 1961, says Vice Premier Teng Tzu-hui, the lower reaches of the world's siltiest river will indeed run crystal-clear. Red China has decided to take on the proud and tempestuous Yellow...
Then Harry Truman marched into the Sheraton-Blackstone's Crystal Ballroom, faced the overflow crowd and grinned as though he had lived his life for that moment...
...splendid experiment , found long and deep refuge in the Nile's mud and sand. It was brought to life at last by a German expedition of 1912. Amazingly well-preserved the bust lacks only bits from the ears, a royal viper from the crown and one rock-crystal...