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William Worthy, the American journalist who spent 41 days behind the Bamboo Curtain, will speak at 8:00 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The title of his speech is "Report From Red China...
...also objected to the word "sneaked" in the sentence which stated that he "sneaked behind the Bamboo Curtain." He said that this was particularly inaccurate since he had warned the State Department that he would go to China...
...dispute between the nation's press and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over his refusal to let American newsmen go to Red China flared up anew. Going beyond his original argument-an unconvincing one-that the U.S. would not be able to protect reporters behind the Bamboo Curtain, Dulles last week entered a new explanation that first confused and then angered editors across the nation...
...never get far from the Iron Cur tain, it seems," said Bell. "I covered it in Korea, from Greece, Turkey and Iran, and from Eastern Europe from 1954 until last Christmas Eve. Now I'm back to the bamboo variety...
...most part, Operation Brotherhood concentrated on the estimated million refugees, many of whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse...