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...physics, took at face value Mao's slogan "Let a hundred schrools of thought contend." Wrote Ko, recalling Communist promises of a higher standard of living: "Who are those whose standard of living actually has been raised? It is those party members and cadres who used to wear torn shoes but are now riding in sedan cars. China belongs to its 600 million people, including the counterrevolutionaries. It does not belong to the Communist Party." Then, in a final access of daring, Ko warned the Communists what would happen if they did not mend their ways and do something...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...
...Europe's war-torn farmlands came back into production, world commodity prices fell. LAPI's income tumbled. Perón had to dip into Argentina's gold and foreign-exchange reserves, a fabulous $1.6 billion piled up during the war, to pay for the raw materials that the new industry was gobbling up. Next, he set the Central Bank's currency printing presses to work. In the chain breakdown...
...East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache who leaps at every idea, flailing with all extremities, as though it were a mouse to be torn limb from limb...
...earth where the girl lay was torn up. The Austrians saw immediately that the girl had been injured by a mine, and concluded that there were probably other mines in the strip. At the edge of the woods beyond the frontier six Hungarian soldiers stood watching the girl. Neither the Austrians nor the Hungarian soldiers made a move to help her. Some of the Austrians drifted off, ashamed of their helplessness in the face not only of the mines but of the fact that the girl was beyond the fence in Hungarian territory...