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...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...
...Harvard athletics are at a low ebb, both from the student and the alumni point of view, and one reason is the lack of a focal point. People think Harvard is a cold place because it doesn't provide normal facilities for athletes, like the very fine clubhouses at Yale and Cornell. The new Varsity Club will cure this condition...
...fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave it to them...
...campus they live on straggles over Northampton in such a way as to make Harvard's layout seem orderly and well planned, Dormitories, little ones, middle sized ones, and big ones, seem to ebb all over town. A walk north from the chief administration building, College Hall, leads through a campus that isn't beautiful, in the way that Wellesley is impressively beautiful, but it is pleasant. The area around Paradise Pond is as collegiate as any Hollywood college scene...
...well as a help to Lloyd Jordan, the head coach. While he has perhaps found it fairly easy to maintain the morale of the sophomores, it is also true that they lack the experience of the seniors. When a new coach comes in football is usually at a low ebb and frequently there is an abundance of seniors on hand who, as juniors the year before, went through a losing season and are anxious to prove they aren't so bad as they have appeared to be. That was not the came this year. There are 12 seniors...