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EXCEPT for flies, beggars and Americans, Communist China is not a Forbidden Land in the way in which that celebrated term applied to Tibet. In an age of satellite eyes-in-the-sky, it is certainly not Terra Incognita; its huge land mass, slightly bigger than all 50 U.S. states, lies naked before the orbiting cameras. The figurative curtain that it has drawn around itself is not of iron but, more appropriately for the Orient, of pliable bamboo. Yet of all the earth's too many closed societies, that of Red China ranks as the most ominously secretive. This...
...Bigger Game. For a scholar and administrator, Rorimer revealed an unexpected flair for showmanship and a love for cloak-&-dagger art sleuthing. During World War II, he was decorated for ferreting out the caches where the Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went...
...Bigger Job, Fewer Hours. The teaching task has similarly soared. In the past ten years, student enrollment has more than doubled, from 2,660,000 to 5,526,000. But the number of new Ph.D.s, who form the major pool of college teachers, has increased only 73%?and less than half of these have actually entered teaching. As a result, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching predicts that the nation's colleges will need about 35,700 more teachers by 1970 than will actually be available...
...Getting Bigger. Behind him, Patterson leaves what United executives call the world's biggest airline, even though Air France flies more route miles. United now has 149 jets and 18,000 miles of routes connecting 116 cities; last year it carried 17,340,000 passengers. Revenues last year reached $792.8 million and earnings $45.8 million. This autumn, service to Hawaii will include the first 250-passenger "stretch-model" DC-8s to be delivered. The airline is also gradually taking delivery on $750 million worth of new planes, and hopes to win a Pacific route to Australia, New Zealand, Japan...
...Streak missile when it was canceled as a military project, were threatening to pull out unless the project can be proved worthwhile. The French were sensibly proposing that instead of putting up purely experimental satellites, ELDO should orbit a paying payload, namely a communications satellite, which would require a bigger and more expensive vehicle. The French seem to be successfully playing on the fear of Europeans that eventually there will be only American and Russian satellites in orbit, broadcasting direct to TV receivers, without going through national broadcasting stations. Says Jean Delorme, president of the French chemical and gas concern...