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...Chinese still sneer at the Russians as "Big Noses" and consider them as alien as other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING ABOUT | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Other Negro leaders were on hand too. Jeremiah X, Georgia torchbearer for the militant Black Muslim organization, paused in a recruiting drive generated by the Birmingham riots to sneer at King's passive approach to integration: "King's movement is just a form of sophisticated begging. We are not a violent movement, but we do not believe in getting our heads kicked in, either. Black people have been dying for nothing all these years-now it's time for them to die for something." Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson were in town for a day. They made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Resounding Cry | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Arab and African leaders generally sneer at Hassan II of Morocco because he is a King in an era of crumbled monarchies. Yet such "progressives" as Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah would not dare to let their own people indulge in the measure of press freedom and political democracy that Hassan allowed in last week's national elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morocco: Experimenting with Elections | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...movement within the U.S. Negro community took full recruiting advantage of the Birmingham riots. The Black Muslims do not seek integration; they want total separation of the races, with Negroes not only independent but, if possible, superior. Now Malcolm X, top Eastern torchbearer for the militant movement, could only sneer at Martin Luther King's gospel of nonviolence. Said he: "The lesson of Birmingham is that the Negroes have lost their fear of the white man's reprisals and will react with violence, if provoked. This could happen anywhere in the country today." Last week, at the crest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Freedom--Now | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...Small Martingale. Professional gamblers generally take Mathematician Thorp and his computerized charts with a sneer and a leer; system players, they say, are always ultimate losers because they play on and on, giving the house odds a chance to operate. The only successful system, known as the Small Martingale, is to double the bet after each losing play, a maneuver the casinos effectively counter by establishing a bet limit. With a limit of $500, a doubler starting at $1 would have to bet an illegal $512 after only nine consecutive losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Beating the Dealer | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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