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...considerable moral satisfaction from befriending the helpless, prostrate country and exerting its diplomacy to limit the exploitation by other Western powers. In the ensuing decades, China became the prime beneficiary of the U.S. missionary movement, which along with Christianity brought education, health services, and a political philosophy that helped spark China's first democratic revolution...
...sponsored by Goodyear, greeting GM executives returning to Bloomfield Hills, which reveals--not the time, not the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, but the minute-by-minute total number of cars and trucks produced since the beginning of the year; finally, there is my favorite--a six-story-high flaming spark plug which flashes to drivers along Woodward Avenue the pious message, "Use A.C. Sparks and Watch Bonanza Every Sunday." Hailey calls Detroit "a great cultural center", and he is right...
...little Buick, who won't see Poppa again until his sixteenth birthday, when he's presented with the keys to a 1987 Farstar Supreme with racing-striped window wipers and 792 cc's, shortly after which popps dies of a coronary in a traffic jam under the flaming spark plug, his last sight on earth being those electronic words, "Use A.C. Sparks and Watch Bonanza Every Sunday." But we leave this to Jacqueline Susanne...
...Baskin is heavy laden with home truths. Big cities- Chicago in this particular case-alienate us one from the other. They corrupt. They deaden. Upon occasion, one stranger meets another. Some spark of humanity is generated, if only for a moment, but its warmth and light rapidly flicker and die. Alone once more, the stranger wanders down a crowded street...
PENN-Lehigh--The Quakers return lettermen at every position which means that they can successfully defend their ranking in the bottom ten. Penn has lost its ethnic flare and offensive spark in quarterback Pancho Micir, but Lehigh once scored a total of 25 point in 21 games with Penn. Rumors had it that Dick Harter was going to double as basketball and football coach this year, but Dick insisted that none of his players would wear sissy pads. Penn will prevail...