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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries the great Red River has swept its rusty silt into the blue salt water of the Gulf of Tonkin. On the rich soil thus built up have risen the twin bishoprics of Bui Chu (pronounced Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Arms & the Bishops | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Sparrows & People. His seventh-grade teacher taught him some current affairs-something about the isms. Naziism to him was the swastika, and evil because it was against the underdog. Fascism to him was a fat man on a balcony. Communism? Today he says without hesitation and with deep seriousness: "I will not live under Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...guilty! I am a sinner!" screamed fat-faced Ilse Koch to her jailers. In her frenzy-whether genuine or faked-she smashed the furniture in her cell and babbled about heaven, hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Very Special Present | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...when parity was last computed) brought the grower an average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: The Happy Farmer | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Please Yourself | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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