Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along South China's invasion coast, facing the Nationalist islands of Formosa and Hainan, Communist generals are drilling a million men, assembling thousands of junks and sampans for amphibious assault. How firmly will Nationalist China hold out in her island remnants? Last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder surveyed Formosa's defenses. His report...
...unmoved. He was now so firmly labeled a "local boy" that Godfrey had to threaten to go back to NBC before CBS would agree to pipe part of his early-morning show into New York. But this show caught on, and in 1944 he made his third and final assault on network listeners. Keeping his local jobs, he undertook to broadcast over CBS without salary until he had lined up some sponsors. Further, he convinced CBS that he should be left on the air regardless of what the Hooperatings revealed. "It takes a long time to build up loyalty...
...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
...assault on the emotions, The Hasty Heart succeeds by never affronting the intelligence, never letting its sentiment spill over. Patricia Neal's controlled intensity suits the nurse's role well, and Ronald Reagan plays the Yank with the right brashness and sincerity...
Foreign policy, however, is scarcely an issue in the present campaign. In the assault on Labor's record-at-home by Conservative campaigners, voters will hear attacks in these three sections...