Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making plenty of money in his lifetime, burly Marcel Leopold made plenty of enemies too. Finding the methodical business world of his native Switzerland too tame, Leopold went to China in the '30s to try his hand at turning a quick yen. As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail before they extracted all his profits...
Many are the refugees who stream across to West Berlin to freedom, and Communist East Germany's general reaction is good riddance. But Kantorowicz's broadcast seemed to bother the Communists very much. Seven tame literary idols, among them Anna (The Seventh Cross) Seghers, were trotted out to condemn their comrade's "stab in the back." Nonsense, retorted Kantor easily, "most of those writers feel the same...
...Jagan gets out of control, the constitution, revised after the 1953 fiasco, gives the governor enough power to tame him. Though the new Cabinet is controlled 5 to 4 by Jaganites, the governor himself hangs onto the title of President and can cast a vote. As for the Legislative Council, the governor could, if necessary, appoint enough new members to gain a pro-British majority. In a deeper crisis, he could invoke emergency powers and assume direct control...
...with some of the top crooners in show business under contract, also plans to tame the wild frontier with some likely-looking cowpokes from the stables of Warner Bros. Biggest and most expensive property is tantrum-prone Frank Sinatra, who will headline two live hour-long spectaculars, 13 half-hour musicals on film and 23 filmed dramatic shows. Frankie's three-year contract will bring him about $4,500,000. Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will...
Inevitably, some of the critics went beyond the bounds outlined by Chairman Mao in his now famous "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Chu An Ping, editor of the Kwangming Daily, which speaks for Red China's eight tame "democratic" parties, had the temerity to suggest criticism of Mao himself: "People have raised many opinions against the junior monks, but no one has yet said anything about the old monks...