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Hong Kong, which Author James Michener calls "the pearl of Asia." From it's high hills visitors can look north across the border to the barren red hills of Communist China; they can spend an evening at the stylized Chinese opera, tramp up and down narrow "ladder" streets and take a 40-mile boat ride down the coast to Portuguese Macao, which will give Americans their best look at China...
...unexpected strength in the team's ladder came at the lower positions where Randall W. Hackett and Stanislaus Kussukovich of St. Petersburg, Russia, easily defeated their opponents...
...University team will be entirely composed of undergraduates. The ladder, recently determined by a University tournament at the Boston Racquet and Tennis Club, will have one of its two veteran players, Nicholas S. Ludington, Jr., in the number one position...
...Soviet Union women have the same status as men, and they may be seen laboring in road gangs as well as on assembly lines. But sex equality does not extend up the ladder of achievement. "One cannot overlook the fact," First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the recent 20th Congress of the Communist Party, "that in a number of party and local government organizations women are seldom promoted to leading posts." Last week Khrushchev himself promoted Ekaterina Furtseva to be an alternate member of the Party Presidium (which succeeded the old Politburo), the highest post ever held by a woman...
...main reason I went into politics," Skeffington tells Adam, "was because it was the quickest way out of the cellar and up the ladder." Skeffington never forgets that there are plenty of votes to be picked up, back in the cellars of poverty, with new dentures, a pair of eyeglasses, some funeral money or a job. He runs on two planks: 1) "All Ireland must be free"; 2) "Trieste belongs to Italy...