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Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began...
The man, Bert MacLeech, is a graduate of Occidental College, California. He has been attending the Graduate School of Education steadily since the summer of 1948. Previously he had been enrolled during the spring term of 1946, and before that, had attended Columbia Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, and Stanford...
Over the years, politically independent Editor Kung, whose readers call him Ta Pao Hsiensheng ("Mister Big Cannon"), has fired at an impressive variety of targets, often in terms far beyond occidental ideas of press freedom. His most abiding hates have been the Japanese, the Chinese Communists and Kuomintang corruption. It...
They wore every variety of Occidental and Oriental costume, carried every conceivable type of luggage (one had a large canvas sack of roasted peanuts). They registered every degree of astonishment at their first look at a hallmark of U.S. life-the neon-trimmed jukebox.
"Since the middle of the 18th Century," says Thompson, "the population of Occidental lands has undergone a growth in numbers and a change in distribution which ... is unprecedented. These revolutionary changes . . . are for the most part by-products ... of scientific knowledge . . . Because they are by-products they have received little...