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...fervent campaign to sell the small car to the U.S., Romney has missed no chance to trumpet his cause. Last week he got another chance-at the expense of New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. The mayor sternly called on Detroit to quit making cars bigger, and in letters to carmakers decried the "continuing burdens" that big cars are placing on cities. In the same space, parking lots can handle 15% fewer cars than ten years ago, said he, while prewar garages handle 40% less...
Armed with a pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a 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...
...Narrator-Host John Crosby, looking better on film than live (TIME, Nov. 18), avoided any religious comment. His secular summation: "The history of evangelism suggests that Billy Graham's popularity will begin to wane in about two years. It also suggests that in about 40 years some other fervent proclaimer will come along and find a mass audience ready and waiting...
Colonel in Disguise. Despite Djuanda's fervent appeal for openhearted and brotherly discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...
...Efficient Colonel. Since then Hourani and Bakdash have operated in the background, encouraging Serraj in the development of his intelligence system, while fervent Pan-Arab and Nasser enthusiasts as well as Communists flocked to their cause...