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...Communists do not in fact believe there is such a thing as neutralism. Mao Tse-tung, chieftain of Chinese Communism, puts it thus: 'Neutrality is camouflage; the third road does not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Where Neutralism Ends | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...been seen by more than 1,500,000 people in twelve seasons and is the biggest money grosser on the pageant circuit. Dealing with the misfortunes of the Cherokees, it has a 50% Cherokee cast, goes vigorously for the scalp of Andrew Jackson. Early in the play, a Cherokee chieftain heroically saves General Jackson's life at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, but before long, in a scene set in the White House, President Jackson defeathers his old allies, insists on deporting them to Oklahoma despite the eloquent pleas of Daniel Webster and Sam Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Ten-Gallon Straw Hat | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...country of many tribes and little sense of nationalism, old Ibn Saud tried to unify his nation in the traditional Arab way: by "marrying" the daughter of a chieftain for a night. Thus the 1,000 princes are a cross section of tribes; and politics in Saudi Arabia, where no man has a vote, is largely palace politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Easing the Code | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last days in a sparsely furnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 21, 1961 | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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