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...present administration's antipathy to the development of public power and to the plight of the farmer has certainly been detrimental to the Republican cause, as was especially evidenced in the power-conscious Northwest and in the Rocky Mountain farm states. Other factors are the Administration's unpopular hand-ling of Indian, reclamation, and forest affairs...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Western Politics | 6/1/1957 | See Source »

Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Anatole Litvak's $500,000 Mayer- ling, starring Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer as the star-crossed lovers (color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Word has seeped back that Ling Hsingyu, formerly a student at New York University, returned to Red China only to find himself in a labor camp. Huang Chiateh, once a professor at Shanghai's St. John's University, was put to work in a coal mine. One student was compelled to write a "thought compendium," and, for "lack of frankness," to slap himself publicly until blood ran out of his mouth. Often Red China's own propaganda betrays itself. "You people living in the other world don't understand our world," another returnee wrote to friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Confidence Game | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Unnerved by the river people's fatalistic fortitude and inexplicable joys, the American takes to his bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chastened American | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...months; Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 26, of Lincoln, Neb., F-84 fighter-bomber pilot, for 31 months; and Lieut. Roland Parks, 25, of Omaha, F-86 pilot, for 33 months. From the bridge to freedom at Lo Wu, Air Force officers escorted the four pilots to the comfortable Fan Ling Jockey Club in Hong Kong. There, Lieut. Parks flopped onto a well-mattressed bed, spread his arms and murmured: "God, it's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Across the Sham Chun | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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