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...hero Joe McCarthy had begun to "irritate" too many people. Even the paper's front-page cartoons, which often showed a runty, Ike-faced figure, idly playing golf while bigger tasks went undone in the background, have been replaced by nonpolitical cartoons. More and more readers detect a hint of reasonableness in Trib editorials for some of the opinions of the other side. Apart from politics, the colonel has ordered dry-runs on a gossip column for the Trib, although in the past he has scorned such things as the work of "keyhole peepers...
...just breaks big brother's heart, anyway, to hear them carry on so. But what's to do? He grubs in Plutarch's Lives-one of the two books in the house, in which his wife has been teaching him to read-for a helpful hint, and finds the story of the Sabine women...
...first hint that all was not going well between Mao and his military proconsuls came last February when Liu Shao-chi, the party theoretician and No. 2 in the hierarchy, warned: "Some of our high-ranking cadres . . . regard the region under their leadership as their individual inheritance or independent kingdom." Last week, after months of maneuvering, Peking abolished the six regional areas and substituted 26 provincial administrations, which Peking can more easily control. The six regional bosses gathered in the capital for reckoning and reassignment. Mao Tse-tung immediately appointed them to the People's Revolutionary Military Council, where...
...space of a few hours, and with little more than a seductive hint, a lifted eyebrow and a meaningful change in the tone of his voice, Red China's Chou En-lai sapped Britain's new-found resolution. In the process, he all but destroyed the purpose of Churchill's trip...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...