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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Sun had got off lightly. According to the evidence made public last week, he had built up the sort of outfit to back his personal ambitions. A similar undertaking within the U.S. Army would have brought instant dismissal to any general so involved. In entrusting liaison with his organization to a Major Kuo Ting-liang, who has since confessed to being a secret Communist, Sun played at best a dupe's role. In the commission's view, Sun "could not have been entirely ignorant of the conspiracy" planned by the major and broken up last summer...
...House is a prime example of an organization that has received too little from the drive. Paradoxically, while the scope and membership of Brooks House have expanded, its share of Combined Charities has sharply declined. The social service house began a new program with virtually no members in 1945, built to 400 in 1950, and rose to an all-time high last year of 825 from the College and another 125 from Radcliffe. Although Brooks House has extended its programs into prisons, mental hospitals, tutoring, and boys' clubs, its income has fallen from a high...
...interpret France to the world, Réaltiés launched an English-language edition in 1950, despite dire warnings that a foreign magazine (particularly at $15 a year) could not compete for readers and advertisers on the crowded U.S. market. After dropping $110,000, the English edition has built the biggest U.S. circulation (39,000) of any foreign publication, will start making money by year...
...Skymotive Terminal formally opens this week at Chicago's O'Hare Field, the first terminal of any size ever built especially for company planes, personnel and executive passengers. Traditionally orphans of the air, business planes get short shrift at most big U.S. airports; executives and guests, says Shell Oil's Chief Pilot Bob Porter, '"have to go through mud and weeds to some back-alley hangar." The Skymotive Terminal was so welcome that it was booked to capacity even before its opening...
...long voyage home, Selkirk told the full story of his four solitary years-how he had built two log huts; how he had conquered a plague of rats by domesticating cats; how he had lived on goat flesh, fish, turtles and wild fruits. A century ago his countrymen placed a plaque on the site of Selkirk's lookout, reading simply: IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER. But a far greater memorial has stood for more than 200 years-Daniel Defoe's The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. So lifelike has this novel seemed to generations that...