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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After delivery, most German firms guarantee prompt, expert maintenance-wherever possible by local workmen trained by Germans. Says an official of Munich's Siemens & Halske electric company: "Nationalistic Middle East governments like it when they find that in dealing with Siemens they are dealing with a nearly all-Arab group...
Chief threat to such a happy ending, Ely emphasized, is Russian expansion in Asia and Africa-"for each new implantation of Communism helps it find again the purity of its younger days." Hence the prime task of the West is to keep Russia out of the underdeveloped nations by carrying out "a just and equitable distribution of Western wealth...
...Spirit of Democracy." Blandly, Foreign Minister Fujiyama last month announced that "on humanitarian grounds, all Koreans in Japan wishing to go to North Korea will be allowed to do so.'' The Red Cross would be invited to find out how many really wanted to go to North Korea, and to take charge of transporting them. "All we are doing." said Tokyo, "is acting in accordance with the true spirit of democracy...
...Game. Court tennis in the U.S. is restricted largely to the wealthy. There are just seven courts in the whole country, only one private one-built by Payne Whitney in 1915 on his Long Island estate at an estimated cost of $250,000. But its adherents find court tennis endlessly fascinating, and in the last five years the game has experienced something of a revival, as Harvard, Yale and Princeton organized teams...
...temple's 300-year history. Last June Photographer Mikio Tsuchiya got permission to record life in the temple, planned impressive exhibits in the U.S., where enthusiasm for Zen's ego-smashing techniques has become a semi-religious phenomenon (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957 et seg.). Tsuchiya expected to find the temple's 30 pate-shaven novices undergoing the most Spartan life imaginable, for Zen is the harshest branch of Buddhism, and Shofukuji itself has a reputation as one of Zen's most austere temples...