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...fined and suspended from his job, a journalist can now get a six-month prison sentence on several grounds, including lack of "respect due institutions and persons when criticizing political and administrative action." In particularly serious cases the sentence can go up to six years. Yet Spanish courts, displaying staunch independence, have not sent any writer to jail...
Painful Decision. Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit...
...business. Its general book division, which has published Robert Louis Stevenson, William James and Robert Frost, has declined to 7%. For the rest, Holt has not only a growing business in educational movies and other teaching aids, but a group of four magazines, including that staunch sportsman's standby Field & Stream. Overall earnings last year rose 28%, to $6.6 million on sales of $70 million-enough to make it CBS's third biggest moneymaking division, after TV and Columbia Records...
...Social Register instead of a telephone book, the Episcopal Church, and Rolls Royce Phantom II town cars. No one gets in without proper credentials. But in The Beautiful Life those with proper credentials are leaving for more lively high times. For Dexter Knight, a homosexual society columnist and staunch defender of permanence, Old Society is the true, classic currency, or to switch metaphors, the official yard-stick by which to measure (and discard) every new wildness...
...Staunch Ally. Though it is just now sending troops to Viet Nam, Thailand is already in position as a staunch ally. It now harbors 35,000 U.S. servicemen-25,000 from the Air Force, the rest mainly Army engineers and logistics experts. The total represents a threefold increase in the past year. Eleven U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons are stationed in Thailand-at Takhli, Korat, Udorn and Ubon-from which they fly about 75% of all the bombing raids on North Viet Nam. Last year