Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outpost, six miles inside the Indian frontier, if India will evacuate ten other passes and strongpoints along the border; 2) in the Western or Kashmir region, China claims to have been in occupation of large areas of Ladakh not for just two years but since 1950, and with the help of frontier-guard units and "3,000 civilian builders" to have laid big roads, "cutting across high mountains, throwing bridges and building culverts" without India's knowledge, thus making "absolutely unconvincing" India's claim to jurisdiction; 3) the strong implication that unless China gets what it wants...
...also calls for a heavy engine to stand up against the battering it gets. Last week NSU Werke motor company of Neckar-sulm, West Germany described a gas engine that has neither pistons nor valves. Invented by a mechanical genius named Felix Wankel, it was developed with financial help from Curtiss-Wright Corp., which provided a fervid earlier announcement of it (TIME, Dec. 7) but no mechanical details...
...emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure in the government. As a member of the Chinese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, she led a group that...
...reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband, the author's answer (yes) is given with great irony to a prosperous executive who lusts for his teen-age baby sitter. Being a decent man, he asks for psychiatric help and is advised to take up woodworking. The ending is a masterpiece of horror: the cure is successful...
They Came to Cordura. Hero Gary Cooper, the man of courage through a long cinematic career, turns coward in this $4,000,000 western but achieves, with Rita Hayworth's help, a different, spiritual bravery...