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...David Cecil. The story of Max Beerbohm's sunny, uneventful life makes relaxing reading for a more frantic...
...calmer times, students were still required to take part in manual labor, though not at such a frantic pace. One of the six school days every week was spent in a local factory, doing some unskilled task. My class was set to work polishing shutter pieces for a local camera assembly plant...
This account may have painted a grim picture for Harvard students: the long hours, the hard work, and the strait-laced morals. What is missing is the exuberance of a whole society making itself anew, the almost frantic enthusiasm with which the Chinese go about their tasks. This must be lived to be appreciated; to my fellow students in Peking the hardships were the joys of creation
...Glasses & Orange Balls. There was talk of installing blue lights to counteract the sun's glare. The frantic Astros sent out for special red sunglasses and colored baseballs: orange, cherry, yellow. "The orange balls are even worse than the white," reported Manager Lum Harris. Suggestions poured in. "I've had 89 phone calls and 130 wires from as far away as Juneau," Richards sighed. The most sensible came from Johnny Keane, whose New York Yankees arrived in Houston to play an exhibition against the Astros: "Paint the roof," said Keane, "or play all the games at night...
...became afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads into waiting trucks as guards gesticulated wildly...