Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Crime Entrepreneur Mickey Cohen (TIME, Aug. 1) went a long way toward proving himself the first U.S. hoodlum with an uncontrollable gift of gab. Instead of preserving a sullen silence when it developed that the cops had been eavesdropping on him through microphones hidden in his house, Mickey submitted to interviews. To impress Newshen Florabel Muir he even let one of his retainers, a Johnny Stompanata, win a couple of hands of gin rummy. Astounded, Stompanata asked: "Why do you do that?" Said Mickey, airily: "Noblesse oblige!" Stompanata asked for a translation, but was cut off. "How," asked Mickey...
...Right now," said a Siamese engineer last week to TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, "the Communists are digging quietly with shovels, instead of blasting with dynamite." The men with the shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The government gave the Siamese Communist party legal status in 1946 (to win Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader...
Meanwhile, Siam remains a land of cheerful people who hate to admit that things may one day change. Skinny Seni Pramoj, Siam's wartime ambassador to the U.S., recently quipped: "There's nothing wrong with Siam. We just happen to have contentment instead of iceboxes. But there's something wrong with the world...
...Instead of manners based on privilege, the British, he said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...experts went into a close study of the new Japanese swimming style, especially that of Prodigy Furuhashi. Instead of the standard six-beat leg kick, carefully synchronized with the arm strokes, he uses a slower, but very powerful kick which at times is not in rhythm with his arm movements at all. His arms revolve stiffly like bicycle pedals; he rides low in the water and, especially to flabbergasted U.S. competitors, he looks like a weird, power-driven machine...