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When it comes to criticizing Soviet bureaucracy, no Westerner can be so merciless as the Communists themselves. Last week Pravda took after O.K.B., the government's Experimental Design Bureau, which supplies industrial know-how not otherwise borrowed from the West. Samples...
Americans, in their open-faced optimism, are apt to believe that the basic assets for social success are good will, a pretty wife, and perhaps a few funny stories. Potter, product of an older and more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter...
...Britain's growing unease. Said he in the House of Commons: "We now know that the Communists are killing U.N. soldiers, and our soldiers. We now know that they have established a reign of terror in China, with horrible executions and mob butcheries [see Foreign News] and a merciless purge characteristic of Communist tyranny wherever it is applied . . . We ought not, I say, to have any sympathies with Red China, and the more they are expressed and manifested in this House, the more harm is done to our relations with the U.S. After all, the U.S. is doing 19/20ths...
...offensive shifted to the west, where the enemy had some 30 or 40 divisions assembled for an all-out onslaught on Seoul. The U.N. forces broke contact and retreated rapidly, forcing the Chinese to advance over a no man's land that was kept under merciless allied artillery fire. After Munsan and Uijongbu had been abandoned to the Reds, the Reds reached the Han, between Seoul and the sea, and started a drive (the southern prong of a three-pronged attack) on the capital. Allied guns fired on them from the city's streets, and warships standing...
...Wholesale (20th Century-Fox) waters down and sugars up Jerome Weidman's merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...