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...thought to hear admitted, the leaders of world Communism last week openly confessed. The Kremlin itself published proof positive that Soviet "justice" is based on torture, that Soviet "truth" can err. Of all the recent curious shifts of wind over Moscow's vast Red Square, this was the strangest...
President Eisenhower's decision to remove the Seventh Fleet as defense for the Communist China mainland marked a complete repudiation of one of the strangest policies in the history of the U.S.: the Truman-Acheson policy of suppressing the Chinese Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
This state of affairs, said Douglas MacArthur last week, was "one of the strangest anomalies known to military history . . . Actually it was this [U.S.] protection which permitted the transfer of the very Communist armies [from] central China for the attack on our forces in Korea...
Among the richest and strangest of the sea changes are those that afflict the colors. At 15 ft., red turns pink; at 40 ft., it becomes black. Orange disappears at the same depth. Yellow lasts until about 120 ft., where it begins to turn green. Below 25 ft. color loses about half its value. Once, at 150 ft., Cousteau cut his hand. The blood spurted out?green. At 55 ft. the blood turned dark brown, and back at the surface it was red. Cousteau has included more than 100 excellent underwater photos in the book, about 20 of them...
...rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book appeared in France last year, the weekly Le Peuple spoke for most of the critics when it said: "The Illusionist is not, strictly speaking, a masterpiece...