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...Chinese best-seller this summer, with more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...
...Lo. one who loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
...often gets the feeling that taking examinations is like playing slot machines: you toss in your hard earned studies, the grader's mind goes round and round and suddenly lo and behold! up pops a grade--often far different from the one you felt you'd won when you took the test. (In justice, it would be said that teachers probably feel the same way about students: they toss in their hard-won knowledge, our minds go round and round...
...Lo Fidelity, Hi Demands. Existential togetherness as practiced by Sartre and Simone made far higher demands than traditional domestic fidelity. They faced the fact that from time to time, in order to fulfill themselves, they might have to live separately. Above all, their allegiance, unlike matrimony, was never to degenerate into mere duty-or habit. Sartre once almost backslid on this. Faced with their first temporary separation (he was offered a teaching job in Le Havre; she had one in Marseille), he asked her to marry him for real. But Simone was strong enough for both of them. She refused...
...than top talent. Broadway Composer Richard Adler (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees) did the score and lyrics. One of the men who won Oscars for scoring West Side Story stayed up all night doing the arrangement. Musicians came from the New York Philharmonic. The high-paid, high-caliber Hi-Lo's were there to do the singing. After 29 takes. Composer Adler was still dissatisfied. "It must have that ping. That's the feel I want implemented, band-wise." Take No. 30 was pingsville. "That's it." exulted Adler...