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Reporter Kinmond, a Canadian citizen and thus unaffected by the U.S. State Department's refusal to allow newsmen into Red China (TIME, May 6), found a "nation in a hurry." a land of often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas, Russian-built air transports load cargo from peditrucks. And, despite the chauvinistic pride that leads Communist functionaries and editors to date all progress from 1949, he found that "selfcriticism is almost a national phobia...
...pundits from Warsaw to Washington were analyzing Mao Tse-tung's recent policy pronouncement on "many roads to Socialism," Legman Kinmond was there to document what Mao means. Example: the government concedes that for at least five more years it must tolerate limited "state capitalism," under which any citizen with more than $800 invested in business property gets 5% interest-plus brainwashing courses at a special college "for the transformation of capitalists...
Salesman Current, appointed business manager, found a complete newspaper plant for sale at Charleston, W. Va. Able Editor Bob Barton, who had also quit the News, was lured back from the Cleveland Plain Dealer as the Citizen's editor; 76 other News staffers and 130 of 164 News carrier boys came to work for the new paper. "It's just like the News had picked up and moved," exulted one reporter. Salesmen signed up their old clients. Circulation men built an advance readership...
Middle-of-the-Road Survival. Last week the first, fat issue of the evening Citizen rolled off the presses in a converted warehouse. Within hours 8,000 newsstand copies had been snapped up; subscribers jammed the Citizen's switchboard with calls of congratulation. Said Kamin: "With the climate Hoiles created, we couldn't miss...
Some of the new paper's best friends doubt that the community can support two dailies-and fear for the $300,000 Citizen's chances in an all-out war with the $2,800,000 News. Nonetheless, Citizen staffers (who have been promised union contracts) are confident that a progressive, middle-of-the-road Republican paper modeled faithfully on the oldtime News cannot fail. "If we can't survive with the kind of help everyone is giving us," said Editor Barton, "then we're just poor newspapermen...