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...Europe that is steadily congealing into collectivism, a middleaged, roly-poly, red-haired Italian is successfully preaching the gospel of individualism. His message: the future belongs not to the politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army officers, silk-stockinged girls, broad-veiled nuns, clerks and plain common men- were beating a path up a back street of Rome to the house of the prophet...
...where East & West meet with a loud clanging of political cymbals arid the thunderous tinkle of gold coins. The outward aspect has been little changed. You still see striking contrasts of native houses and vast modern apartment buildings. People swarm in the streets and traffic is a surging, endless stream of fatalistic pedestrians, caracoling bicycles, shoals of rickshas and fleets of pedicabs, which are a weird but surprisingly efficient combination of ricksha and bicycle...
...arrived in North China. This week Peiping, Tientsin, and Shantung Province were seeing their first "regulars" in eight years. A wave of optimism, in refreshing contrast with the cynicism of the Western World, has been flooding over China, like the Yellow River at crest. But like that mighty, fertilizing stream, it can make for prosperity or sorrow...
...More efficient gas pumps, some of which shoot out a stream of gas at a speed above that of sound (about 1,100 ft. per second). The collateral discoveries of the Manhattan Project, said Baker, totted up to around 5,000 new products, procedures and devices. The improvements in pumps alone, over the next 20 years, might be worth the cost of the bomb...
Markey's mother had once forded a stream with Jesse James and "had spent half her life in parts of the country where more men carried firearms than carried timepieces." But still she had ideas about being "civilized" that seemed strange and irksome to a six-year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey...