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Pineapples are flourishing on the chilly mountain peaks of Tibet. Lush acreage has appeared in the desert of Mongolia. Red China has produced a miraculous substance that can enrich its soil and abolish hunger. To devise a way to steal the Chinese secret, Rus sian, American and British intelligence authorities confer. Their solution: send in Gregory Peck...
Macabre Accident. As a child in San Francisco, Isadora burned her parents' marriage certificate to free herself from moral convention. She yielded to the tyranny of official paper only once thereafter - when she married her Rus sian lover in order to bring him into the U.S. Between those parentheses, she ransacked the temples of Hellenic culture, switched from dresses to togas and from shoes to scandals. In Amer ica, the bourgeois dismissed her as a wan ton. It was in Europe that she won her recognition - and lost her life when her trailing scarf wound around a racing...
...fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...
...revolution, terror inevitably breeds reaction, and last week the first signs of it were evident in China. As the rabid Red Guards continued to root out real or imagined foes of Mao Tse-tung everywhere, reports from the northwestern city of Sian told of a three-day clash between revolutionary students and provincial party leaders who refused to go along with their idiotic demands. To humiliate the bureaucrats, the students finally staged a mass hunger strike in front of party headquarters. In Kwangtung province, scores of Red Guards were beaten by villagers after the youths set fire to a temple...
...There was also a three-hour chat with China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi; Malraux blandly called it a tour d'horizon that included cultural relations between the two countries. Next, the visitor was off to see the Lung-men Grottoes near Loyang, the archaeological finds at Sian, and finally, the cave-riddled mountains of Yenan where Mao Tse-tung set up his headquarters after the 6,000-mile Long March...