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...hiding to map his counterattack. Finally, shouting at the top of his lungs, Walker gave out a statement to newsmen: "We have Communists and we have the Overseas Weekly. Neither one is one of God's blessings to the American people or their soldier sons overseas. Immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive are terms which could be applied to either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: On the Shelf | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...afoul of the law, but also at those borderline areas of corporate action which might have unfortunate social consequences for our fellow man," said Ford. "Around the world, we are often described as a corporate society. If that is so, and if it is judged that the corporations are corrupt, then it will be assumed that the society itself is corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: This Is Our Failure | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Kienhoa. He has driven the surviving 800 guerrillas into a 130-sq.-mi. pocket and hopes to have them cleaned out within a year. He has torn down most of the jails in the province, built hospitals and schools, and he is now training 370 schoolteachers to replace corrupt village officials. Says Thao: "It is a long, slow process. We cannot win unless the people are on our side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Truth by Night | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...ambitious, sensational and controversial. Acclaimed in Europe as "the greatest Italian film ever made," it has also cooked up Italy's sizzlingest scandal since the lurid Wilma Montesi case. L'Osservatore Romano has damned it as "indecent" and "sacrilegious"; Communists have hailed it as an "unmasking of corrupt bourgeois society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Day of the Beast | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...Dark Is Light Enough. Other notable stories include Backwards, a knockdown farce that deflates the modern millionaire's cringing devotion to liberal cliches; Josse, a tale of venomous and elderly siblings caught in a snarling web of dependence; and The Boy Martin, in which a corrupt young whippersnapper discovers that his elders are even snappier and far more corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mephistophelian Moralist | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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