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...Reversals." Washington Sinologists also note an increasingly defensive tone in official Red Chinese publications. One reason: from Algeria, where Ben Bella was deposed in June, to Ghana, where Nkrumah was ousted last month, China's sphere of international influence has seriously diminished. As Peking's fond hopes of impending victory in Viet Nam have gone glimmering, China's principal party organ, People's Daily (Jen Min Jih Pao) has had to inject more and more caution about the "upheavals" and "reversals" facing the Communists. "Like a seagull flying in a rainstorm," the paper exhorted last week...
Music provides the Schmidts with still another form of diversion. Maarten plays the violin, Corrie the piano, and both are fond of chamber music. Visiting astronomers and relatives are often pressed into chamber music recitals at the Schmidt home. "If I play," admits Schmidt, "it has to be in an intimate circle. Only my best friends can really stand...
...wasn't it a long, fond wake the widow held? After Irish Playwright Brendan Behan died of "the gargle" two years ago, Beatrice Behan, 40, told Redbook in Dublin, "I spent a few months drinking around in the pubs where they knew him." After a while, said Beatrice, "I felt his personality slipping under my skin.. I imagined that everyone loved me, and I even sang those dreary I.R.A. songs that Brendan used to sing. But then I realized I was not being natural, so I drink but little now." Still, considering the mourning after, the great gargler...
...than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
...point during the party, O'Brien launched into a general discussion of American foreign policy, which he is none to fond of. He said that when a civil war breaks out, the U.S. steps in, finds the nearest general, and says he's a neutralist general...