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...soon transformed government by murder into government by massacre. Hundreds died every day in the torture chambers operated by her secret police; whole villages were wiped out by ambitious commanders who invented a sedition whenever they wanted a promotion. When all possible opposition was crushed, Lady Wu abolished the Tang succession, established the Wu dynasty, and in 690 had herself crowned as the first Wu Emperor. To everyone's amazement, she proved in most respects a model monarch. She demolished the apparatus of terror and installed a Cabinet of honest civil servants who ruled the country well...
...held the job, Chairman Charles Greenough Mortimer has led the mothers' march to chipped, chopped, frozen, freeze-dried, premixed, precooked convenience foods. Last week, approaching mandatory retirement at 65, Mortimer turned over the General Foods basket (Maxwell House and Yuban coffees, Post cereals, JellO, Birds Eye, Minute Rice, Tang, Gaines's dog food, etc.) to an aptly named successor. Replacing him as chief: President Chauncey William Wallace Cook, 55, an aggressive, Texas-raised six-footer...
Scott's interests range beyond the corridors of power. He is an expert in oriental artifacts, a specialist in the Tang Dynasty, and the author of a book on the subject. When he was at Harvard last week, he took an hour off from his busy schedule to examine the Fogg Oriental collection, and was asked his professional opinion on several hard to-identify pieces not yet on display...
...times in the past 27 years, Author Ambler has taken ingredients not unlike these and distilled his own aromatic blend of 160-proof suspense-sometimes with the smoky overtones of his early A Coffin for Dimitrios, sometimes with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much...
...seven-course, $7.75 dinner is spiced by whirling Balinese dancers. There are also many good, inexpensive restaurants. Cafe Hilton atop the Better Living Center offers cafeteria-style choices of regional dishes from five gaily decorated international kitchens with entrees priced from $1.25 to $3.25. The Maryland pavilion brings the tang of salt water with its Chesapeake Bay crab and oyster recipes ($3.50). Greece's taverna has stuffed vine leaves and mousaka starting...