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...Cyrus W. Field, Charlotte Whitney was graduated from Wellesley, turned to Communism as an answer to the poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World War I sabotage, she was eventually pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young after a storm of appeals from liberal sympathizers, many of whom were later alienated by her strict following of the Stalinite Communist line...
...Although the post-World War II baby boom is leveling off, the world's population is still growing by 1.2% each year, according to a new World Health Organization study. Biggest net population increases are mostly in high-mortality, high-birth-rate countries, with some important exceptions: Ceylon, 28.5 per thousand inhabitants, Chile 22.9, Canada 19.2. Lowest increase countries: England and Wales 4.0, West Germany 4.5, Sweden 5.7. Biggest exception to the rule: The Netherlands, with a 14.1 increase and a low 7.7 death rate. (The U.S. had a 15.1 increase and 9.6 death rate...
...Biggest: 164,876. in the week ending June 17, 1950.) Ford set a post-World War II record; both Chevrolet and Buick scored alltime highs...
SENATOR H. ALEXANDER SMITH, 74, a New Jersey Republican lawyer who studied under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, worked for Herbert Hoover's post-World War I relief teams, and rates as one of the Senate's best-informed authorities on Far Eastern policy...
...from grand ruins to temporary housing. After weathering the years in all critical climates, the French tales, engineered by such masters as Stendhal, Flaubert, de Maupassant, are pitted in spots, but glow with the patina of timelessness. The Italian stories, put up in the hurry and scurry of the post-World War I decades by such contemporary literary architects as Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi and Vasco Pratolini, rock with life, and occasionally with shaky craftsmanship. American readers, surfeited with New Yorker-like tales of muted discontent, may find both collections refreshing reminders of what Italy's Ignazio Silone calls...