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...Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...
Instead of thrusting pins into a dummy or crossing her eyes in a victim's presence, she simply mutilated his photograph. She removed curses by the same dreary system: applicants for de-hexing were told to put a torn photograph under a rug, with the feet pointing to the door so the hex could walk...
Even Bedsheets. Of all European countries, France was most enthusiastic in welcoming tourists and foreign exchange. Railways were mending their torn roadbeds, the glamorous Blue Train to the Riviera was back in service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
...middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...
...reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...