Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around the neck of American imperialism," moonfaced Chairman Mao Tse-tung vaingloriously declared: "Nobody but the Americans themselves made these nooses, put them around their own necks and handed one end of the rope to the Chinese people...
Notably Noncommittal. U.S. allies, most of whom privately think the islands should have been relinquished to Red China long ago, were notably noncommittal. Harold Macmillan, caught in a journalistic trap (see Great Britain), felt obliged to state publicly: "Our American allies have neither sought nor received promises of military support from us in the Formosa area." On the Continent, France's De Gaulle and West Germany's Adenauer both maintained a disapproving silence. In Australia Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, usually a staunch advocate of a united Western front, declared that his government had "no specific policy...
Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
There was only one thing wrong: everyone already knew that the British critics were dismissing Auntie Mame as a sad, soggy, American-style flop. But the party was (as even the British have learned to say) socko...
...greater and greater inclination on the part of the public to sample the fruits of civilization. Other magazines fulfill bits and pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after...