Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delete titles; 4) if there are four (names, make an initial of the second; 5) if the name is still too long, make an initial of the fourth. Thus, Antonio Orlando Sanchidrian Palmero, a charter subscriber to LIFE EN ESPAÑOL, became A. O. Sanchidrian P., for purposes of his file card...
Meanwhile, North Korea's Nam II, who had not been seen in the flesh since October, dispatched a letter to the U.N. calling for full-scale resumption of truce talks. Nam echoed Chou En-lai's line that 1) no Communist prisoners are really unwilling to accept a return to Communist control; 2) if some seem unwilling, because of "intimidation and oppression," they should be put in custody of a "neutral" country pending final disposition. There was no doubt that this vague proposal could lead to difficulties-if the Communists wanted it to. The basic question was whether...
...fearing civilizations -Islam, India, the Far East - have adopted Western technology and ideas in self-defense. But the World has accepted only the more trivial parts of Western civilization: it resolutely rejects Western religion and values. Here, Toynbee's readers get a new Toynbean equation, the Law of En counters: "When a traveling culture-ray is diffracted into its component strands ... by the resistance of a social body upon which it has impinged, its techno logical strand is apt to penetrate faster and further than its religious strand ..." Since the World has turned Western technology on its creators...
...Moscow kept its promise to release British and French civilians interned in North Korea since the Communist capture of Seoul in 1950. Fourteen Frenchmen, including two diplomats, one newsman and five nuns, were en route from Moscow on their way home to France. Six Britons and an Irish priest were "in process of repatriation...
...French Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...