Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world-affairs course at San Leandro (Calif.) High School: At 18, I am already an old TIMEr and read your magazine as my own world-affairs course. I think Mrs. Levine's idea is great. I wish I had the opportunity to join her class...
...their grab for all China. Today the paper employs 500 card-carrying newsmen, has just moved into a gleaming new Peking building equipped with eight gleaming new presses from East Germany, and can claim some of the most devoted readers in the world. Issues are posted at city intersections, read aloud down on the farm, devoured top to bottom and right to left by jailed counter-revolutionaries taking the cure, and spelled out by Asiatic nomads who will walk many a mile for the camel that brings in their copies...
...always a source of exasperation to me when I read about people like Simone de Beauvoir [I The Long March] who extol the virtues of Communism. It is remarkable that she returned to the "dirty" free world after her visit to Red China. Intellectuals of De Beauvoir's school of thought should return to the "lands of enchantment" where Marx is read instead of the Bible and love is superseded by a tractor...
...imagine the genuine feeling of satisfaction that lawyers had when they saw and read the superb coverage in the May 5 issue of TIME...
...relief of Olivia Mary Galante," read the bill stuffed in the congressional hopper by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter. The proposal: let Tokyo-born Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, wife of Paris Journalist Pierre Galante, keep her U.S. citizenship without spending at least 18 months of every five years in the U.S., as must all naturalized Americans. No movie buff, Congressman Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, who has kept a flinty eye on the foreign-born, seemed sure of Olivia's loyalty: "She is a lovely person, a very good American. She made...