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...Americans are on top of heaven. We Chinese are eighteen levels down in hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eighteen Levels Down | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Eighteen months on the carrier "Yorktown" and a year and a half in the Aleutians filled the time until the fall of 1945, when Nelson returned to Ann Arbor to work on a Master's degree in Physical Education...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Backfield Coach Nelson Was Here Before . . . With Harmon and West fall | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...Eighteen months ago, he bought a second-hand Mimeograph machine, set it up in his three-room apartment on New York's grimy Second Avenue, and began putting out a monthly publication called Solo. Containing about seven pages of Hauser's poetry, it is sent free to writers and critics culled from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Room with a View | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Long Road | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: c/o R.C.M.P. | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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