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...attracted by the rice, chewed up the Chairman's picture. The fourth peasant got ten years for making light of one of Mao's favorite slogans: "Fear no sacrifice, overcome all difficulties to achieve victory." The peasant's version: "Fear no drowning, overcome all difficulties to swim to Hong Kong...
...This week, undaunted by the opposition of some faculty members to her appointment, Mrs. Wexler will take office-and she has no doubts about her ability to swim in that sea. "It seems to me," she says, "that one has always to ask the question of whether he is willing to put his activity where his social convictions are, and mine are in this kind of place...
...same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer. These elements might have been mixed into some sort of vulgar melodrama; with Pritchett, the story becomes a parable of the things that divide and unite...
...Shelton, executive vice president of the city's Chamber of Commerce and publisher of Atlanta. Despite pressure from Chamber members to change the monthly magazine's direction, Shelton had resisted intervening. But when he saw the December issue, he exploded over a piece of fiction called "The Swim to the Other Side of Bayou Vermillion...
...Harvard freshmen, who have also won every contest so far, swim against their UConn counterparts prior to the varsity meet, and it appears that they will be able to earn fifth victory without undue strain...