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...Recently in Canton, Hsiao Ming took advantage of relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought along her child Li Po, who just had finished his first term in the state-run kindergarten. He wore a dark blue Lenin uniform and, for a boy of five, a preternaturally grave expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Father to the Man | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Chinese Communists like to show with statistics how well the younger generation is being brought up in the New China. They boast that some 5,000 state-run nurseries and more than 1,900 nursing rooms, caring for 192,000 children, have now been set up in industrial and mining enterprises "to avoid the phenomenon of mothers' being unable to join production because of their children." Result: nine out of ten women in Red China are now "suitably employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Father to the Man | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Cologne, Germany, an autocratic, absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic expert, he composes on paper (his scores suggest a cross between economists' graphs and architects' schemes), then reduces his ideas to sound. This involves great concentration and endless experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music of the Future | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...India's problems; he now refers to Red planners as "unrealistic reactionaries." Last week, still talking Socialism but less emphatically, Nehru announced that India would not now nationalize such private enterprises as the jute and textile industries, that India would welcome capitalists as "junior partners" in future state-run projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nehru v. Communists | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Test in Sicily. But the clearest indication of whether state-run companies can do a better job than private oilmen has been in Sicily. After drilling 20 dry holes, Mattel's A.G.I.P. pulled out of Sicily. In 1950 Sicily, which has a large amount of autonomy, allowed two dozen foreign and Italian firms in to hunt for oil under a new Sicilian law. By last week, Gulf Oil Corp. had brought in three promising wells with an average production of 350 tons daily in the Ragusa area (TIME, Jan. 25). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has reported that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: State v. Private Capital | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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