Word: followers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Tsiang's appeal sounded like Nationalist China's swan song: London, Paris and Washington would probably soon follow Moscow's lead in recognizing the Chinese Red regime. This week, U.S. delegate Ambassador Philip Jessup sidestepped China's cry for judgment. In a vague, high-sounding alternative resolution, Jessup proposed that U.N. members pledge themselves not to interfere in China's domestic affairs, nor seek special privileges or spheres of influence...
Because the play concerns three periods of time--the historical Henry IV, the past and present of the madman--plus the involved personal relationships of each, it is difficult to follow. One becomes further confused by the difficult of the play's idea. But at no time is the play dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday...
...written in both Afrikaans and English; but in bureaucratic practice, a letter written in English was answered in English, a petition phrased in Afrikaans answered in Afrikaans. Last week the Department of Defense decided to end this haphazard arrangement. Setting a fashion which the whole government is expected to follow soon, the Department decreed that henceforth all its official correspondence will be carried on with strict impartiality-in Afrikaans one month, in English the next...
...optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames on a strip of movie film. Pictures or elements of pictures in the primary colors will blend too, giving a scene in reasonably natural colors...
...national constitution of the fraternity, which the local chapter must follow, limits the membership in effect to "any male Christian of the Aryan race." The local group went on record last spring against the discrimination clause and unanimously voted to work at last summer's S.A.E. national convention to change the provision...