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...cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into a ditch. What bad luck! But, no, it is good luck. For it is at this very point that the treacherous...
...wreckage when he heard a man's voice screaming: "Don't shoot!" A moment later a body hit the ground at his feet. As the newsman bent to examine it, a wild-eyed stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger...
...prices for clothing, housing and most other major goods and services more than offset the substantial reduction in food prices, reported the bureau. Although the rate of increase was the lowest in ten months, thereby offering hope of a stable index in the months ahead, the September high will trigger a 1?-to-5?-an-hour wage increase for some 1,500,000 workers. It will also cause further strains on inflation-pressed family budgets across the nation; while the price index stood 3.4% higher than a year ago, another Labor Department report showed factory workers' buying power down...
Like air show spectators wondering apprehensively when a plummeting sky diver will trigger his parachute, Wall Street's experts were still waiting for the stock market to level out. But last week was not the week. After starting off with a strong rally, the greatest bull market of all time weakened and fell in the last three days to end the week at 433.83 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in 2½ years. All told, 263 stocks, among them such blue chips as Du Pont, General Motors and Alcoa, reached new lows for the year...
...likelihood is slim, therefore, that Turkey would ever launch agressive action against either the Syrians--whose weak army could offer little resistance to the confident and trigger-happy Turkish juggernaut--or against the Russians, whose size and atomic strength unfortunately, for the Turks, preclude the thought of risking a grudge war. But on the other hand, the strength and toughness of the Turkish army now being manifested in the muscle-flexing along the Syrian border should be sufficient to deter reckless moves within Syria. Yet the hard reality of the situation in the Middle East today is that a miscalculation...