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...term contracts with confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground...
...bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
Joint instruction has its roots deep in the past. Some one hundred and seventy years ago, a group of young ladies gathered in Cambridge to reap the educational benefits of Harvard. For more than a decade, this experiment meant nothing more formal than more or less random studying with the College faculty; but in 1784 the first diplomas were awarded to "Annex" students, and Radcliffe set up in business officially...
...planned to release its series. (LIFE bought excerpts for its March 29 issue.) But Doubleday was in a swivet. It postponed publication of its book until the question of ownership could be cleared up. If OAP claimed the diaries, and it looked as if it would, the Government could reap the profits from this bestseller...
...ragged mountains of Greece. It inspired strikes in Seoul, Korea, and San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy. A Shanghai girl student asked a boy to write in her autograph book. Instead of an affectionate personal sentiment, he wrote: "What is the reason for the existence of people who reap wealth without laboring?" Marx, who guided the Chinese boy's hand, was also last week the most important man in the world's two great centers of power, the U.S. Congress and Moscow's Politburo...