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...Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing...
...into a functioning parliamentary society. Its people, the "carnivorous sheep" who could be led to every form of political profligacy, have clamped total civilian control on the militarists who launched five aggressive wars in less than a century. West Germany today again boasts the biggest army on Western European soil. But today German arms are valued, not feared-except by Communists...
...Britain received the news grimly. Washington saw the "absurd" pretext of a German threat as the opening bid for stationing Soviet troops on Finnish soil while diverting attention from Soviet pressure on Berlin. Ultimately, Moscow might intend to whisk neutral Finland behind the Iron Curtain, lock the Baltic door behind her. The Swedes felt the same fears, and there was growing talk about reconsidering Sweden's historic neutrality. NATO member Norway, which shares a 390-mile frontier with Finland in the north, prepared to draw up new defense plans...
Playwright Greene astutely observes how the small talk of the married about cookery and child care ''kills desire," wryly noting that "only kindness grows in that soil." Indeed, the lovers are amusingly disarmed by domestic kindness when the wife promises to tell her husband about her lover, "but not before Christmas.'' There is a scandalously funny how-he-caught-her-with-the-other-man scene, in which the dentist blandly fails to catch on, that takes place in an Amsterdam hotel room on and around twin brass beds, and the triangle is augmented by a Dutch...
...late 19th century, California paid its oenological debt to Europe by shipping thousands of cuttings to France after an epidemic of phylloxera devastated every French vineyard. But the simple transplanting of vines from one country to another does not result in identical wine unless climate and soil are also identical. Thus, despite all this cross-breeding in their ancestry, the wines of the U.S. and France remain notably dissimilar...