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...often gives the clothes from his back, the food from his plate and money from his flat purse to the poor (TIME, June 7). A Christian Democrat, he broke the Reds' grip on the Florence city administration four years ago. Some of his fellow Christian Democrats, however, shudder at where his charitable philosophy sometimes takes...
...have to be me?" And the picture gives Michener's answer: People back home "act the way they do because they're there. You . . . go on doing your job because you're here. It's just as simple as that." This, though Paramount may shudder to hear it said, is an existentialist answer, and surely a poor one to die on-though just as surely many a man has had to die on it for want of a better reason in his heart...
...guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder at the harm that might be done once such a deft and ruthless professional as Red China's Chou En-lai gets to maneuvering the inexperienced, the emotional and the naive among the men who represent more than half of humanity...
That picture of the Indo-Chinese women greeting the Viet Minh in Hanoi looks more like a national convention of tombstone gazers than a glad-hand welcoming committee. Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen would probably shudder with fear if they could properly analyze and interpret the facial expressions of these sad-looking souls...
Watches, Bicycles & Cloth. But there were other obstacles equally imposing. Many a British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...