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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to the home country: third-or fourth-generation Indians like to think of themselves as "brown Africans." Because of their devotion to large families ("If we have only four or five children," explains one Uganda tailor, "our neighbors sneer at us and say we are too poor to have any more"), the Indian population in East Africa shot up 74% in the past ten years. "The Asians," the Asians say, "are in Africa to stay." So far, the whites have grudgingly let them, but some Asians are beginning to wonder: What about the blacks...
...Brazzi), who is flying off for a London leave during World War II. "Look up old Grace." Old Grace is his young fiancee. The marquis looks Grace up-and down. "We will marry immediately," he announces. They marry. Four days later the marquis heads back to the wars, and poor Grace (Deborah Kerr) has nothing to do but stitch rugs and eat for two (Sigi is born at the height of the blitz). Nine years later she is still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been...
...moviedom's future by sending stocks of producing companies steadily upward. United Artists has jumped from 15¼ to 32¼ in 15 months, Paramount from 30⅝ to 50, 20th Century-Fox from 21¾ to 43½, Warner Bros, from 16⅞ to 40. Though Standard & Poor's recently prepared an analysis warning that movie stocks are "quite speculative," it gave bullish reviews to seven of the ten companies it examined. Says a leading Wall Street movie industry analyst: "There's a great deal of skepticism -but the Street is intrigued...
...Chalk relaxed his terms by pledging to keep the 15? subway fare so long as the city guarantees him an after-tax profit of 6½%. As usual, he was mum about who was putting up the bulk of his bankroll. Grinned O. Roy Chalk: "I'm a poor man -never have more than 50 bucks with me. The big thing is, I know where I can get more...
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was a kind of Chinese John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China...