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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Peking's suffering subjects, special torments are visited on those who live in Red China's own Wild West, the twice-Texas-sized, rugged but rich Sinkiang province. On one side it abuts Russian Kazakhstan, on the other Tibet, to which it is linked by the disputed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Troubles in Sinkiang | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

For the past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Biggest Fund | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

THE PLEDGE, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Kennedy then will go to Los Angeles next summer probably without the support of any one of the top four delegations. Even if the state leaders decide that the vice-Presidential slot is out of reach and pledge themselves to Kennedy at the convention--as any of them might do...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Catholicism and Kennedy | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

At the opening of Parliament, Nehru further dazzled and delighted Indians by warning that "any aggression" against the small states of the Himalayas would be considered as aggression against India, and won cheers with his pledge that "if war is thrust upon us we shall fight with all our strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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