Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princes, held court while he worked to the accompaniment of music and brilliant conversation; his Venuses were meant to grace Olympian festivals. Rembrandt, whose parents saw to it that he got a good Latin-school education, plus a taste of university life, preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology, but the result (opposite), now owned by Leningrad's Hermitage, is basically a plain young Dutch girl, garlanded with field flowers and dressed in the rich, show-off satins and brocades that so delighted Rembrandt...
...widespread unrest. Recently a group of exiled Tibetans, led by the Da'ai Lama's brother, declared in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru that the Chinese had bombed the provincial capital of Litang and that Tibetans "had risen in aid of their fellow countrymen." The Indian press was skeptical of the claims and to a man ignored the letter; Indians are careful not to borrow trouble with their big Communist neighbor...
...Canadian oilman, Alfredo Campo, 51, who is now Canadian Petrofina's president. Campo was sales manager for another big company (McColl-Frontenac) when he decided to set up his own firm in 1953. He tried to raise capital in Canada but failed to interest any of his fellow countrymen. Said Campo philosophically: "Canadians are too cautious." Finally, he got in touch with Petrofina's head office in Brussels and negotiated the backing...
Passed from one to another by his expatriate fellow countrymen, Reporter Val Chu, in the U.S. after six years as a member of TIME'S Hong Kong news staff, conducted a month-long survey of the Communist pressures at work on Chinese students in the U.S. His report...
Spreading Trouble. Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders took alarm. Unlike Poland's top leaders, who seem to share some of the current ideological ferment of their countrymen, Czech Reds have been trying to squash any new thoughts among their people. Czech newspapers refused to print the students' resolutions, and the students gave the regime a lesson in enterprise: they fired off copies by air taxi and motorcycle to other Czech university towns, where the resolutions were widely circulated and discussed. Someone sent a copy to Radio Free Europe, and soon the full text was being beamed...