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...priests found Christianity making great headway in Japan, largely because of G.I.-Japanese postwar friendliness, plus General MacArthur's Christianization campaign ("You can't have democracy without Christianity"). Only in China did they find hostility to the U.S. in general. This, they felt, was not so much the result of Communist activity as the natural resentment of the Chinese at being dependent...
Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in dance halls. But General Tu had shown great ability in beating the Communists to control of southern Manchuria 18 months ago. Now he hoped to keep it from them...
Indo-China. The French are slowly making military headway in Indo-China against the Viet Minh* revolutionary party, headed by a clever 55-year-old goat-bearded Communist, Ho Chih-minh. Did military progress mean much? A few weeks ago, miles inside the French lines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, riding in a French military convoy, came upon the scene of an ambush. The rebels had blown up the convoy ahead of him, killing 48 persons, some horribly. Sherrod cabled this impression...
...employees. In salary and dividends, they draw up to $50,000 a year. Even one of its police reporters, William Moorhead, is a country-clubbing capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like Roy Roberts' sometime poker and drinking companion, Harry Truman...
...being sternly reminded this week-National Heart Week-that medicine is making little headway against public enemy No. i: heart disease. Though heart disease, as obituary columns remind readers every day, is now the biggest killer (nearly 600,000 deaths a year), it gets scant research attention. Even more shocking, says the American Heart Association, is the nation's neglect of the treatable disease known as rheumatic fever...