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...followed by stalemate and armistice, in Indo-China by retreat, and in the Tachens by evacuation. Today, even a hint of further retreat seriously demoralizes those Asian political leaders who have crawled out on a limb to support U.S. policy. For example, in the politically sensitive Philippines, President Ramon Magsaysay last month summoned all his prestige to fight through the Philippine Senate a resolution backing the U.S. stand on Formosa. Magsaysay's supporters, erroneously interpreted the U.S. position as insuring defense of Quemoy and Matsu. On this basis Magsaysay and his friends won a smashing victory. Last week, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plus & Minus in Asia | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Milford American Legion hall for a public meeting, 3) launched a fund-raising drive for the N.A.A.W.P., and 4) began collecting signatures for a petition to oust three officials who have not been displaying the proper N.A.A.W.P. attitude: State Superintendent of Public Instruction George R. Miller Jr., Milford Superintendent Ramon C. Cobbs and M. A. Glasmire, principal of the Milford high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...pursuit of such ways, Dulles spent 1954 in a ceaseless round of travel, logging 101,521 miles on journeys to Berlin, London, Paris, Caracas, Bonn, Geneva, Milan, Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Man of the Year | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...possibly troublesome opposition for the future-not from the well-beaten Communists, but from ambitious politicos of the extreme right wing. ¶ Honduras went anxiously to the polls, fearing armed revolution as the likely upshot of a three-way presidential race that looked like a three-way standoff. But Ramon Villeda Morales, a socially prominent pediatrician and a pro-U.S. liberal, got 48% of the vote. Because he missed an absolute majority, a newly elected Congress must choose the next President, but the talk of revolt dwindled rapidly in the face of such a clear verdict. Hondurans, whose history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Who Won | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Mild Manager. After that, Dusty struck out twice, a failure that almost proved him human. But by then the Giants were safely in front. Durocher's men didn't seem capable of making a single serious error. Over on the Cleveland bench, Alfonso Ramon Lopez watched his boys make a shambles of their reputation. "Everything we've done is wrong," marveled the mild-mannered manager. "Everything they've done is right." Probably not even a good ball team could have beaten the Giants; the lackluster Indians never had a chance. After the third game Sportswriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Waiting for Dusty | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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