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...current U.N. estimate is 740 million, and most American demographers lean toward 800 million But not even Peking is sure of the size of the population it commands. The last published census, taken in 1953, showed 583 million. Peking now claims 700 million. But when American Journalist Edgar Snow asked Mao Tse-tung about these figures, the Chairman said in disbelief: "How could there be so many...
Only the best in the 212,000-man corps are accepted for duty in the parade squad of 200 enlisted men and eleven officers. Lean and hard, the Marines are mostly over six feet tall, and this year all are Viet Nam veterans. They practice as much as 16 hours a day before the season begins until each maneuver is letter-perfect. Then they practice some more. "Eighth and I is an exhibition of perfection in standard military formations," says Corps Commandant General Leonard Chapman Jr. "It is all by the book. That is what it is all about...
LARRY HINSON, 26, a string-bean-lean blond from Douglas, Ga., won the 1966 N.C.A.A. golf title while a senior at East Tennessee State. Though his left arm is slightly withered from a boyhood bout with polio, he is solidly accurate from tee to green. In 1969, his first full year on the tour, he won $54,267. Last season he pocketed $120,897 and was the eighth-highest scorer on the tour. "I want to win the big four -our Open, the British Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters-then I'll retire. I know what that sounds...
...typists-Colani has invented the cradle-like device. In it, a secretary can sit upright, slump or practically recline while typing, without missing a key. "Every part of a typist, with the exception of her eyeballs and fingers, is supported," says Colani. Installed in the contraption, a typist can lean against a contoured back and headrest, with elbows planted on concave platforms and wrists braced on two flexible supports just below the keyboard. Earphones provide music or can be connected to a dictating machine. Colani, who calls his device an "integrated mobile module," spent three months and $20,000 developing...
Though the Vatican officially kept hands off the highly successful referendum campaign, Rome's conservative II Messaggero charged the Vatican with interference nonetheless. Said La Stampa's Carlo Casalegno: "The anti-divorzisti were able to lean on the church structure, hundreds of dioceses, thousands of religious institutions, and tens of thousands of parishes from Bolzano to Siracusa, in organizing the collection of signatures." Thus, when the referendum takes place, probably next spring, it may emerge as a test of the political power of the church. Right now the church enjoys a slight advantage; a recent poll showed...