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...stirring up the Kazakh tribesmen in Sinkiang against their Chinese masters. Only last year, Red China charged, Russia had lured some 10,000 Kazakhs in Sinkiang into crossing the border into Soviet Kazakhstan. Despite repeated protest from Peking, Russia refused to give back the Kazakhs because of "humanitarianism" -a pretext that China clearly regarded as ludicrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Self-Bound Gulliver | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Just as the anticlerical French government used Catholicity as a pretext for ending China's 4,000-year suzerainty over Viet Nam, so is China's atheistic government using Buddhism as a pretext to renew that suzerainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1963 | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...answer, as interpreted by actors such as Paul Scofield and the late Louis Calhern, is that the seeds of madness have always lain dormant in Lear, ready at the slightest pretext to sprout. But Carnovsky has a more mordant and, in many ways, a more tragic view. Lear, he contends, is everyman; his disasters are everyman's and the tragedy in Shakespeare's eye "is not in Lear himself, but in life." When Carnovsky's Lear, reeling like a wounded animal, howls forth

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Everyman's Disasters | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...risks. Moscow could secretly prepare a massive series of atmospheric tests while the U.S. is lulled into the illusion of security (which is just about what happened when the Kremlin broke a three-year moratorium on testing in September 1961). With or without formally disavowing the treaty under some pretext, the Russians could then touch off a series of explosions that might swing the nuclear balance in their favor. Even without such clandestine preparations, the Kremlin could carry out tests in outer space behind the sun or the moon, under the polar icecap, or at very low atmospheric levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE MILITARY & SCIENTIFIC RISKS | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...taken her back to his apartment to have intercourse with a man who was wait ing naked in the bedroom. In all, said the prosecution, Vickie had some 30 assignations in Ward's apartment but never saw any proceeds; the osteopath pocketed the money, said she, on the pretext of saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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