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Chip on Shoulder. Soviet and satellite technicians have been replaced by Red Chinese experts since the break with Moscow. The Chinese draw the same low wages as their Albanian counterparts and earnestly spend their free time studying the difficult native language, but most of the xenophobic Albanians regard them as...
One minute before midnight, the stadium was plunged into darkness, the Union Jack was lowered, and up the flagpole was hoisted Tanganyika's new flag-green for the land, black for the people, and gold for its mineral wealth. At the stroke of midnight, the lights went on, and...
When Robert Ardrey was a small boy in Chicago, his family attended services at a neighborhood church, while the young congregated in the basement for Sunday school. "A new member or two would be initiated," says Ardrey, "and if injured seriously, helped home to his mother. There would be a...
No doubt about it now: Japan's Akira Kurosawa must be numbered with Sergei Eisenstein and D. W. Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru...
Darkness forced the cancellation of a seventh race after each team had won three. Officials therefore decided the match on cumulative point totals, rather than the usual "best-four-of-seven" basis. They announced they would use the point scores before the sixth race began. With only one leg to...