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...Hong Kong these days, markets and bazaars are flooded with produce from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls...
Into Cruz's timeless existence one day, word came that the hacienda was to have a new patron with a curious name: Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The faraway university proposed (with help from the Carnegie Corporation of New York) to experiment on the most effective ways for bringing modern know-how to primitive peoples. What the job required, in effect, was an isolated human laboratory; Cornell's Professor Holmberg, who once tramped the Andes on a field mission, had picked Vicos...
Alternative: War. To many of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers such a policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell...
...siesta time in Pnompenh, the capital of faraway Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000). No tamarind leaves stirred in the bright blue sky. In the monasteries saffron-robed Buddhist monks recited their scriptures; in the shuttered bazaars few bothered to tune their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...
...rating or sexual decibel, but rather as friends are chosen, for their good human faces and pleasant ways. As a result, each of the pictures was just what a children's classic is supposed to be: a breath of healthy air blown in from the warm meadows of faraway and long...