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(3 of 10) unkempt city on the North American continent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Similarly, the French party, which is the Continent's second largest Communist group, has split with Moscow for the first time in its history. One result is that the party, which has a strong Stalinist tradition, has itself split into pro-Moscow and pro-Czechoslovak factions. After bitter quarrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A WORLD DIVIDED | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Gentlemanly Debts. Giro is the most advanced, fastest-working variant of a system that has been working on the Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Zip Code Banking | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

So it has often been with America. As the pioneer vanguard of the young Republic swept westward, Americans were gradually confronted by an embarrassing discrepancy between political dreams and everyday realities. There was on the one hand the agrarian, egalitarian Eden of their early (often mythical) memory, and on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Uses of Yesterday | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Taiwan's aid program in Africa, where Vanguard concentrates its efforts, is impartial enough to include a nation like Ethiopia, which votes for Peking in the U.N. It thus serves as an advertisement to countries still diplomatically uncommitted. Several countries have recognized Taipei after receiving technical advice; last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan: Diplomacy Through Aid | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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