Last Days of China Under a Vast Medieval Calm
A historical portrait of Qing dynasty China as it neared Western contact in the 18th to 19th centuries. It describes Manchu rule, population pressure, the gentry hierarchy, and the peasant majority, noting cultural rigidity, insularity, and a lack of scientific modernization before looming sea invasions by alien, technologically superior powers.
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China
Ch’ing
K’ang Hsi
Ch’ien Lung
H. T. Lei
West
Military Man Likely To Be Next President Of Brazil
Gen. Arthur Costa e Silva, 63, a trusted minister and veteran of Brazil's 1964 revolution, appears likely to be named ARENA’s nominee for president by congress in October. Backers hail his toughness against corruption while critics warn he may resist ballot-based power shifts and maintain harsh economic reforms led by Roberto Campos.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Arthur Costa E Silva
Joao Goulart
Carlos Lacerda
Costa E Silva
Lacerda
Costa
Congress
Humberto Castello Branco
Times
Jockey Club
Rio
O Cruzeiro
Ft. Copacabana
Alfenas
Yolanda Costa
Casado de Castro
Castello Branco
Porto Alegre
The
Sorbonne
Army Staff
War College
Ft. Knox
ARENA
Alianca Renovadora Nacional
MODEB
Movimento Democratico Brasileiro
Roberto Campos
Costa de Silva
Campos
Idaho county salaries set by legislature in 1966
Pocatello Idaho AP reports salaries of county commissioners are set by the legislature. Top pay is 6499.85 dollars. Salaries were cut by 15 cents last year after Lawrence Lystrup threatened resignation if cut further. Lystrup remains in office and hopes the next legislature will restore the cut.
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Pocatello, Idaho
Idaho
Bannock
Lawrence Lystrup
Lystrup
World Book Prize For Fourth Grade At Sherman School
Uncle Ray notes a World Book Encyclopedias prize awarded to Sherman School in Middletown Ohio. He invites classes to submit five question sets for a chance to win a 20 volume World Book Encyclopaedia and explains the air and heat dynamics on earth valleys mountains and the moon with advice on moon-walking gear.
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Sherman School
Middletown
Ohio
Uncle Ray
la Crosse Tribune
Earth
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Corporus
Don Oakley
John Lane
Confucius
By H. Denny Davis
Doan
Doan’s
Ga Crosse Tribune
RFC
A&c Johnson CO
Fifth Ave
Uncle Ray’s
Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
Ata A
Wurlitzer Organs
Woolworth’s
Nicollet Mpls
Minn
U.S.A
Woolworth
NYLAC
Iwiches
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