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...York, decided the Russians, might conceivably be all right as a place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Karen control of the Irrawaddy had cut off rice shipments from Rangoon. The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan ($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and thousands of other residents

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Baptist Rebellion | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Nehru was not terrorized. In his angriest attack on the Reds, he said: ". . . Communists have looked upon these strikes not from the trade union point of view . . . but as a weapon designed to create a chaotic state in the country . . . [They are] deliberately seeking to create famine conditions by paralyzing our railway system ... It is not the government's conception of civil liberty to permit methods of coercion and terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Round & Round | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...beer, and a riot"--that used to be a work able definition of the freshman Smoker. Some people still consider it so. The post-war Smoker, however, is supposed to serve the useful purpose of promoting class unity and injecting some group spirit into the chaotic Yard. That's what the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs maintains, at any rate, and this body has presented considerable evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Smoker | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

...General could pull France along to economic recovery, however, his other "shortcomings" might be swallowed with a minimum of disgust. For France cannot have political stability without this recovery, and a chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Gaulle Gains | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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