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...bureau's proximity to the mainland, a mere 18 miles as the wu-ya (crow) flies, our correspondents in the crown colony must piece together news from travelers, diplomats, refugees, provincial Chinese newspapers and radio broadcasts. Their task is made easier because all three have had first-hand experience on the mainland. Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who chatted with Chou En-lai in Peking in 1973, began on-the-scene reporting of the Chinese civil war for LIFE in 1947. Rowan covered the conflict from the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's armies in Manchuria to the fall...
...election. "Three nice men Teddy, Woodrow & Bill $ame $ame $ame." But that didn't stop him from greeting Wilson as the savior of the proletariat the world over, the man who was going to maintain old-fashioned American democratic ideals and smash "the Hohenzollern Hog". That most first-hand observers of the war saw in it few old-fashioned American ideals, and certainly little salvation for the proletariat the world over--just a lot of carnage and death and maybe some profits--didn't matter. All Ives's energy, all his critical will and assertive independence, poured into support...
...over two years, I served as the National Legislative Director for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; and, I have just been elected to the California Legislature. I know the farm worker problem first-hand and within this space I would like to rebut the following statements made by your "reporter...
Thousands of American skeptics have gone to the Orient to witness or experience first-hand a medical procedure that has been in use for more than 5000 years--more than 3000 years before Aristotle laid the groundwork for the theory of Western medicine...
Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, said yesterday that the Economics Department would be "enchanted" to have Dunlop teach labor and structural economics since the Faculty has "few people who have a first-hand knowledge of the American economy...