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He helped plot the fabulous Long March, in which 30,000 Communists trekked 6,000 miles in 368 days to the northwest to escape Chiang's armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Great Dissembler | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

But Dr. Sweet had worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Physicist Gordon Brownell to develop a scanning machine that shows, with a high degree of accuracy, not only whether a brain tumor is present but, if so, precisely where it is. Dr. Sweet gave Holly an injection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scanning the Brain | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

House Speaker Joe Martin last fortnight hinted at what was in the works. He an nounced that he favored cutting to 10% most excise taxes now above that level, e.g., the 20% tax on theater admissions, furs, jewelry, purses, the 25% tax on long distance telephone calls, the 15% levy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Down Another Billion? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Boss Goes to Jail | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Not one to be cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: D.C. Diarist | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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