Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island's population of 15 million but hold only 2% of the seats in the Assembly. In addition, the regime has strong actuarial reasons for seeking to broaden its base. Of the 2,961 Assembly members chosen at the last election, which was held on the mainland in 1946, many never made it to Taiwan at all; hundreds of other Assemblymen have died over the years. There have been five more deaths since the opening of the current session on Feb. 20, and present membership stands at 1,369, with an average age of well over 65. Several hospitalized...
...Well, President Nixon finally made it to Mainland China. Now I wonder how long it will be before he visits Harlem, Watts, Appalachia, the migrant labor camps or an Indian reservation...
...play consists of that mild formula of sterectypes, gimmicks, and murder which Ms. Christie always feeds her readers. This one dates from the mid-forties and, more often than not, acts its age: On a desolate island cut off both from England's mainland and its sense of fair play eight strangers gather for a holiday. Their host, they learn, is delayed in London. As the guests introduce themselves, a ghostly voice breaks in to accuse each one of a specific murder. It even throws in one for the butler and his wife, the cook...
...biological role in birth and feeding." The baby bottle has freed women from some of the tasks of that role, but, says University of Michigan Psychologist Judith Bardwick, "the major responsibility for child rearing is the woman's, even in the Soviet Union, the Israeli kibbutz, Scandinavia and mainland China...
After equipping Schecter and Sidey with cameras, he instigated a special airlift to get pictures of the trip off the mainland, and by Thursday night the first 150 rolls of film had been flown into Chicago. There Durniak, Color Director Arnold Drapkin, Artist Anthony Libardi and a crew of photolab technicians worked nonstop for the next 38 hours. Meanwhile TIME writers and editors in New York were poring over the Sidey-Schecter files for this week's cover story and articles in THE NATION and THE PRESS. The result: a hard-won look into a long-hidden China...