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...Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas...
...collection, The Gau-pu ts'ung k'an Collected Printing in the Four Cate will be the largest publication Chinese undertaken in the West...
This is the simple outline of Novelist-Playwright Felicien Marceau's new book, but it is the portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will...
...health problems," says Dr. Daniel Douady, the government's director of school and university health, "but who knows how many mentally ill are walking about? In a few years mental illness will clearly be problem No. 1−if it isn't already." Adds Jacques A. Gau, president of the National Mutual of the Students of France: "Three-quarters of the students who consult our doctors complain of anxiety, though they usually don't know precisely what the trouble is. And of the remaining 25%, many get social security benefits for other complaints, but their real trouble...
...slight stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show was twelve-year-old Célina Tai's crudely drawn portrait entitled (after a couple of false starts) "Mon grand-père Paul Gau-Guin," and copied from a Gauguin self-portrait...