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...Spree. The masters of Red China, whose sins are the vaster ones of aggression, wholesale blood purges and stifling of thought, take pride in the fact, attested by many observers, that under them the ancient oriental custom of "squeeze" is largely abolished and corruption has disappeared. Last week, however, Peking's People's Daily reported the short, gay life of one Chen Chu-hung...
...long story of its own fumbling with the economy. A year ago inflation was only a distant threat; its pressures had not actually set in. Then Congress whooped through a tough control bill and thrust it on the Administration. While a panicky public went on a buying spree and bid prices up, Mr. Truman refused to use his powers. By the time he got around to it, high prices, largely induced by fear-buying, were almost out of his reach...
...season pennant favorites with the majority of baseball writers, were finally beginning to act as advertised. Vollmer's sensational spree was not the whole story: the Red Sox have power to spare with Williams, Vern Stephens, and Billy Goodman, the league batting champion. The team is better off this year in "bench" (i.e., reserve) infield strength supplied by Lou Boudreau, deposed Cleveland manager. Day after day, playing where he is needed most, Boudreau has sparked the Red Sox at bat and afield...
...foreign technicians Iran had so confidently expected when it started its expropriation spree were nowhere in sight. The Dutch, appealed to for assistance, told Iran to go fly a kite. Some Italian technicians tried to make a deal, but it came to nothing. Instead of helping Teheran, U.S. oil companies, assisted by Washington's suspension of antitrust laws, began pooling their resources, prepared to make oil deliveries to Iranian's old customers...
...Scenic Spree. A Western Journal is the diary Wolfe kept on the hectic two-week trip through eleven parks in eight states (distance covered: 4,632 miles). Judged as literature, these hurried jottings are unimportant except to Wolfe students and cultists. But like his novels and stories, they reflect Wolfe's insatiable appetite for evidence of his country's natural variety and grandeur. He was, as a close friend remarked, "a man who could get drunk on scenery," and the Journal shows him on one of his happiest sprees...