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...printed but unrelievedly self-glorifying. In government offices in Rabat, Red Chinese experts discuss expansion of Morocco's tea production. In West Africa's Guinea, technicians from Peking are helping improve the rice yield. Cuban generals in Havana talk weapons and tactics with Chinese army officers. In backward Yemen, 2,000 Red coolies labor in the sweltering heat on a new highway for the Imam. No longer is Russia the sole voice or representation of Communism to the outside world. China's Mao Tse-tung is intent on showing the undecided, the needy and the restless that...
Moslems should ask themselves, said Ayub Khan, why "all over the world the Moslem communities are the most backward and most uneducated." He answered his own question: Because the Islamic culture let slip its "earlier dynamism," relapsed into "conformism, superficiality and superstition." Said Ayub Khan: "The kingdoms and crowns which the Moslems have lost in the course of history are far less important than the kingdom of the free and searching mind, which they have lost through intellectual stagnation...
...crosses I must bear, none heavier than the Cross of Lorraine," Churchill once said, and his remark illustrative of the fact that there is great man of our time less widely than General Charles de Gaulle. very name is a symbol of all that politically backward-chauvinism, egotism, and obscurantism...
...they were proved to be wrong. In advanced countries the technology of food production has kept well ahead of population growth (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948). The U.S., with its burdensome crop surplus, is farther from starvation than ever before, and other countries are in the same condition. Only technologically backward countries are seriously feeling the pressure of population, and they can dodge fate for a while at least, by improving their technology...
Three plays later, Brown had gone eight yards forward and four yards backward. On fourth down, halfback Bobby Myles rolled out to the right and tried a pass, which was intercepted by the varsity's Tom Gaston on the Harvard 19. But a bone-crushing tackle by the 5 ft., 6 in., 140-lb. Myles shook Bruce Macintyre loose from the ball on the next play, and the Bruins had yet another chance...