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...short, squat bridge perches across a shallow gully at Lo Wu, where Red China and British Hong Kong meet. Railroad tracks as well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...meant the U.S. intervention] is looked on very much as we would look on Chinese armies driving to the Rio Grande. [But] always I found people, even total strangers, friendly to me, an American. They wanted to know all about Lin Ken, 'who freed the slaves,' and Lo Sze Fu (Roosevelt), 'who wanted one world...
...Butters, 400-hitting varsity rightfielder was the only Crimson player to make this year's Greater Boston all-star baseball squad. The GBL coaches who picked the team named Butters an utility man on the 12-man roster, despite the fact Butters had the best average of the lo...
They Didn't Believe Me (The Hi-Lo's; Trend). A new vocal quartet that perks up its smooth work with subtly timed vocal exclamation points, gives full delight to the happy old lyrics...
...Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...