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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irrepressible Hunch. Despite Chou's implicit admission that things were not so rosy as Peking's inventive statisticians made out, Red China was obviously, at a lower rate than the boasts, pushing forward industrially. The people might suffer, but for centuries China's people have known hunger and oppression; the people might be resentful, but never before, under any tyranny, had there been so systematic and efficient a thought-control system, so vast a network of informers patrolling home, church, school and work place...
...pass annually, later to be peeled off as cadres for other divisions. Of the total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only ten per month. (To step up the process, 300 German pilots are being trained in the U.S. and 200 in Canada.) The navy is making do with one destroyer and 130-odd minesweepers, patrol boats and submarines...
Some papers have shaved overhead by forming cost-cutting business alliances. Tulsa's morning World and evening Tribune, spirited editorial rivals, share the same shop. Papers in three Georgia cities have combined as the Georgia Group, whose ad salesmen sell space at a reduced group rate. In a single plant in Clarksville, Tenn., Publisher James Charlet prints nine papers. In a recent, dramatic example, New York's chain-publishing S. I. Newhouse sold plant and property of his strikebound St. Louis Globe-Democrat to the thriving St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which will print the Globe on contract...
...submariners are among the happiest military men alive. Last week Navy captain Harry J. Alvis told the American College of Physicians meeting in Chicago that the rate of submarine mental breakdowns "is much lower than among the rest of the military population." As chief of the Navy's submarine doctors, Captain Alvis had one answer known to any man who ever underwent pigboat training: all submariners are volunteers, and not every volunteer becomes a submariner. So scrupulous is the selection process that less than 1% leave the service after winning coveted dolphins. As a result, submariners are unusually bright...
...cosmic-ray count that they showed was not unusual. But after two or three weeks, tapes began to dribble in from stations in South America. "As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation." Over the U.S., where the satellite swooped low, the rate was about 40 counts a second. But over the equatorial region, where the satellite was rising to its highest point, the counting rates were much smaller. During some two-minute stretches there were no counts at all. Says Van Allen: "My first thought was, 'Great guns! Something's gone...