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Even after the Russians began talking about "peaceful coexistence," they were still ready to seize every opportunity, as, for instance, in 1961, when they tried to spread the cold war to Africa during the Congo crisis. TIME doubted then that Khrushchev was prepared for "really serious intervention" and, as this...
COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author again strikes out on unfamiliar terrain, this time telling the grim story of Burke and Wills, two 19th century Australian explorers, who first crossed their continent from south to north looking for rich prairies and finding an unsalvageable desert. They died...
∙COMMUNIST CHINA. "Peking incites and actively supports the aggression in Southeast Asia in violation of the Geneva accords of 1962. Peking attacked India and occupies a position from which it continues to threaten the sub continent of South Asia. Peking is attempting to extend its tactics of terror and...
Encouraged by their success in raising the number of U.S. stockholders from 7 million to 17 million in a decade, U.S. businessmen and brokers are looking to Europe for the next big boom in American stocks. Brokerage houses are rapidly expanding their networks on the Continent and providing new and...
COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author provides his native Australia with a singularly bitter national myth- the story of two explorers, Burke and Wills, who in 1861 became the first to cross their continent from south to north, and discovered an unsalvageable desert.