Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace & War. These are things that go with peace. Everywhere within Peiping's ancient walls peace is far more apparent than war. The late autumn countryside around Peiping is beautiful and calm; life seems to move at the speed of a farmer's donkey cart. But you will hunt far this week to find the expectation of peace in China...
Winter lay ahead, but autumn lingered. In a Kentish garden figs ripened, scores of Red Admiral butterflies swarmed over beds of chrysanthemums. Beneath clean-picked apple trees strawberries bloomed again. Farmers harvested late crops as daffodils poked their shoots out of the soil. The season was just a little queer. ¶ London's overworked bus conductors and conductresses (clippies) decided to enforce a "no standing" rule during rush hours. Clerks and M.P.s trudged to work, tempers flared. Goaded by a bossy clippie, 60 medical students shooed her off her own bus while they sang "Oh, why are we waiting...
Spartanburg, S.C. was torn between pride and embarrassment this autumn when a local boy named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero...
Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by Hopeh coolies, hopped off and were on their way south again within 50 minutes...
Congress displayed a soggy lack of enthusiasm; the public was remarkably silent. So it seemed possible that the debate over peacetime conscription, touched off by President Truman's message to Congress (TIME, Oct. 29), might sputter out like a damp fuse in the fogs of the first postwar autumn...