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Hedged Bets. ITT's recent sorry relations with the U.S. Government raise some questions about its future growth. True, the trustbusters could have given the company a tougher deal; for example, they could have forced it to sell off Hartford Fire instead of the lesser Avis, Levitt and several...
An unintentional irony of Paul Scott's vast and impressive novel about the last days of the British raj in India is that, although Scott flays the British for the rigidities of their rule, the architectural scheme of his work is serenely imperial. It suggests croquet lawns and carriage...
Two other drug developments: in Geneva the district attorney issued an arrest warrant for Huchang Davallou, a member of the imperial entourage of the Shah of Iran, and charged him with supplying 35 gm. of pure opium to an Iranian resident of Geneva. Police discovered that Davallou was protected by...
For the Ming emperors, the center of the world between heaven and earth began in the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the red gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions...
A rare bright spot in the Indochina war has been the seemingly charmed survival of Angkor Wat, the fabulous, vine-covered imperial ruins that are revered today as the centerpiece of ancient Cambodian culture. Even after a Viet Cong regiment and several Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communist) battalions slipped into the...