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Siam, the monarchy of songwriting King Phumiphon Adundet, may be the Communists' next objective. Siam's population (17 million) is largely Thai, and the government is torn with dissension. On the Siamese side of the Laos border there are already some 50,000 pro-Communist Chinese and Vietnamese rebels, organized and trained by Chinese and Viet Minh agents. They sit astride the traditional opium-smuggling routes, and are believed to have accumulated stocks of modern arms. Field Marshal Phibun Songgram's border guards find it prudent not to trouble them. Former Premier Pridhi Panomyong has long been...
...many more flights, perhaps 40 of them, gradually increasing the speed to the maximum. Some of the flights are sure to be unpleasant, but Bill does not worry much. The flights will not come very close together; after almost every flight the X-3 is torn apart to remove some of its hazards. Between flights, Bill can enjoy his considerable salary, hunt for abalone on the surf-foaming rocks, and enjoy the guest of the evening in his beach house. If he worried overmuch, he would not be a test pilot...
...Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution to the show: a porcelain urinal over the doorway decorated with...
...face of increased research for the war effort. Under the auspices of the Army public health program, the school played a major role investigating new health problems. With the end of hostilities, Harvard saw a pressing need for specialists and adapted itself to cope with a world torn by destruction. Reorganization plans were taken down, dusted off, and put to use. The break with the Medical School was completed and the revitalized School of Public Health began...
...traveling Nenni Socialists and their strange allies, the monarcho-fascists, opened their last-ditch battle against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill. Not until 76 hectic hours later did the battle end. The chamber of the Italian Senate by then was a shambles of broken chairs, torn books and blood spatters; at least a dozen wounded Senators and Cabinet Ministers stumbled about in the wreckage. But the unholy alliance had lost and refused even to cast its votes. The final vote...