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...cracking down ever harder, and systematically sealing up every tiny gap in the Bamboo Curtain. The foreign press colony is now almost nonexistent in Peking. In the past six months, nearly two score Chinese servants employed in foreign embassies in Peking (including even that of "comradely" Czechoslovakia) have been whisked off to jail. Last week Mao's government ruled that the embassies and foreign business concerns could no longer hire their own employees, must accept people sent to them by the State Labor Bureau...
...program is designed to give recent college graduates "a practical course to bridge the gap between a liberal arts education and actual working experience," offering instruction in all phases of publishing, Mrs. Venn noted. In its seven years of existence, it has prepared over 500 students for jobs with book publishers, magazines, newspapers and miscellanous house organs...
...Winter's Tale, which the Stratford Festival has chosen as its third item in this year's repertory, presents special problems. Unlike The Tempest, it violates the unities of time and place, with a gap of 16 years in the middle. Before the gap, the play is unrelieved tragedy; after the gap, it is mostly pastoral romance. For this reason the more superficial commentators have regarded Tale as two plays. It is one play, however; and this production, under the combined direction of John Houseman and Jack Landau, preserves its oneness successfully...
...abstract art revival ("And don't think I wasn't baffled by them at first," she admits). Henry Moore's carved-wood Reclining Woman stood as symbol of her unceasing effort to bring the best of modern art to San Francisco, thus help bridge the gap that had tended to keep the West Coast ten to fifteen years behind trends set in Paris and Manhattan...
...stern to many a deep-keeled craft that might have passed her had they been slugging it out to windward. Four days out, Finisterre got another break when the big boats up ahead ran into a calm. While they slatted helplessly, the smaller boats like Finisterre closed the gap the big fellows had opened up. On the last day, when storms made up in the southeast, Finisterre held her own in dusty going and drove home an easy winner...