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...dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into a ditch. What bad luck! But, no, it is good luck. For it is at this very point that the treacherous saboteur has done his foul work: water is trickling through the dike. What to do? The hole is too large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Blighted Bloom | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Reliable Deus. The trouble on the beach is only a sand-flea bite compared to the other dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toga & Dagger | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead of spending his time commenting on how wonderful Foster Dulles has been." Charlie Wilson, said his wife, was "a blunt man; he speaks what he thinks, and most of the time what he thinks is true." While cheering dauntless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Charlie, Grinning | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...time is the near future; the place, the U.S.; the heroine, beautiful Dagny Taggart, a stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...agrees that the winds that swoop across the tennis courts are unfortunate, but the organization will not agree to erect any barrier to the rampant winds. It seems only fair that the dauntless group which braves the winds to stand up the courts also be given a chance to play the game. If trees cannot survive in the miserable soil of Soldiers Field, then a wooden fence comparable to those surrounding the better protected football fields would be in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perennials | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

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