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...eager young Chinese Communist diplomat would have jumped at the assignment, and crewcut, bespectacled Tung Chi-ping was no exception. The place was Bujumbura, the cool, colorful capital of tiny Burundi (pop. 2,750,000) in the heart of subversion-ripe Central Africa. The embassy itself was located in an entire wing of the Paguidas-Haidemenos Hotel ("hot and cold running water"), and the job was nominally "assistant cultural attache." The duties were far more interesting than mere lecturing on Sung poetry and Ming pottery. Every night, for instance, exciting home movies were shown to select audiences brought in from...
...sailing that has gripped me the hardest." Then he adds, perhaps intending to be disarming: "I'm supposed to be a 'competitive' person; at least, I've always enjoyed competitive sports and matching skills with others." The fact is that Corny Shields, now a ripe 70, would die if he didn...
...conflict. If a man disputes public school prayers, for example, he has standing only if his own children are affected. If his children are not yet involved in the prayers, or have already left the school, his standing is insufficient to build a case. Further, his case must have "ripeness," meaning that he must be able to show real injury at the time he sues. If the school board is only thinking about starting prayers, the case is not yet ripe...
...Marion Sadler, 53-are all operations men. So mammoth and complex has the aviation industry become that it now takes one boss just to schedule and maintain the jets and another to finance their $6,000,000 price tags and worry about the future. The time is ripe for moving in new men; recovering from the red ink that plagued them after jets were introduced, the industry last year racked up record profits of $84 million...
...black comedy and melodrama with absorbing skill. Maintaining a light, steady touch on the story line, he deploys his camera for a series of witty asides, mocking views of upper-crust life as it is temptingly reproduced in the advertising on the lid of a cookie tin. And one ripe interlude at a hunt ball finds all the horsiest young socialites in full...