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From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1949: China: What Can Li Do? Chiang Kaishek Steps Down | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau-had bought Inventor Josepho's device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE 1927: Photomaton | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney) is the latest Silly Symphony in color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing 60 Years: Cinema: 1933 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...expressway shootout was the fourth attack in 3½ months on Yeshiva students and other Jews in the ethnically diverse north Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. On June 7, four bullets were fired at Yeshiva's five-story brick administration building; two days later, someone fired six .223-cal. blasts at Jewish Memorial Hospital. Neither attack caused more than minor property damage; no one was hit. But two weeks after that four still unidentified people pumped 20 shots from a passing car into a neighborhood luncheonette known as a Yeshiva student hangout, wounding three of the 50 students inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Fears | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Four barefoot West Point cadets wearing summary Hawailas shirts hoisted a fifth cadet up a brick wall outside of the Harvard Hillel on Mr. Auburn St. late Saturday night and absconded with the Jewish student organization's flag, according to eyewitness John B. Rabinowitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Capture the Flag | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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