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...strength of these programs, Peking now talks reassuringly of a "bumper summer harvest next year." But the fact is that after almost eleven years of Communist rule, China has gained not at all in the desperate race between food production and population increase. "Food is very scarce," wrote a mother in Foochow to her son in Hong Kong. "Were it not for your remittance, we would not taste a piece of meat in a year...
...along the 45 miles of coast running from torrid Algiers west to Chenoua Beach, bungalows and cabanas were crowded with sun worshipers, Moslem and European alike. On the coastal roads autos moved bumper to bumper with only an occasional armored car to serve as a reminder that this was Algeria and not the French Riviera. Then a wisp of smoke rising on the mountain behind Chenoua Beach raised a forest fire alarm. After beach police rushed off to the fire, F.L.N. terrorists went to work...
...pressed some 120 extra buses into service, overloaded the regular runs, still found they were able to take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually find you've left somebody back in the city...
...Cadillac swerved to the right and stopped; the two Fords halted bumper to bumper behind it. Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines...
...newsmagazine to judge how well it does its job is through the response it evokes in the letters from its readers-some thoughtful, some witty, some angry, yet each one informative to the editors as a measure of reader interest. By that gauge, 1960 is a bumper year for TIME. For the first five months of the year, TIME'S letters have reached an alltime high -20,153, for a 40% increase over the same period last year. Letters on National Affairs, which always comprise the bulk of the mail, are up 45%; the Foreign News section has drawn...