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...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
...slipped hundreds of miles under the fierce Arctic ice pack to the North Pole. The fourth U.S. submarine voyage to the Pole, it was the first made in the dead of winter. Sargo chose the tougher western route (more than 4,200 nautical miles from Hawaii through the Bering Strait to the Pole), bucked the worst ice of the year (average thickness: 6 ft.), sailed under the pack for almost 15 days, surfaced seven times. At the Pole, where the sub poked up its conning tower, several crewmen scrambled out and proudly planted the red-white-and-blue-striped state...
...over Europe who filled the court were uncertain what impression was being gained by the twelve apple-cheeked Swiss jurors who will decide whether lovelorn Pierre Jaccoud goes free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing of the smug Genevois society, the curse of immobile prosperity in this...
...Strait is the gate and narrow is the way to Wheaton. The questions put to a prospective faculty member constitute a kind of primer of Fundamentalism, e.g., How long have you been saved? Do you accept the account of the creation of the world and man as recorded in Genesis? Do you recognize a position in Wheaton College as a divine calling to Christian service? Have you used tobacco, alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs in any form within the past year, or danced or played cards or attended the theater or moving-picture theater? The wrong answer to any question...
Kishi was right about the quick victories (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines), wrong about being able to get a quick peace. As the fortunes of war worsened, he reacted just as had his Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo...