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Underneath, the accords wore the look of deep cooperation between Moscow and Peking. Most of the points were Russian concessions. The Russians agreed: ¶ To evacuate their ice-free Manchurian naval base at Port Arthur (pop. 142,000) by the end of next May, thereby ending a ten-year military occupation. ¶ To extend another $130 million in long-term credits to Peking. ¶ To sell back (for easy payments of Chinese exports) their share of four joint Soviet-Chinese companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface...
Society and Harvard University, the trustees of the collection-Vice President Thomas B. Adams of the Sheraton Corporation and John Quincy Adams of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company-announced that the big day had come. With a ten-year gift of $250,000 from LIFE, a group of historians will edit the papers for the Harvard University Press, will also make them available in microfilm to 16 U.S. libraries. Among the items in the collection: the complete diaries of Presidents John and John Quincy and Diplomat Charles Francis; letters and manuscripts of Historians Brooks and Henry; family correspondence...
...rural electric cooperatives and the private power company have blocked each other's expansion in the courts and before the state Public Utilities Commission. As a result, customers suffered with poor service at high cost. Last week the feud finally ended. Kentucky Utilities had a precedent-setting, ten-year agreement with 15 local cooperatives to exchange generating and transmission facilities. And the generators were turned on in a brand-new steam power plant at Ford, Ky. Built by the East Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp., it will also supply surplus power to the Kentucky Utilities Co., after meeting needs...
...between TIME covers and other assignments, Artist Rowe is working on a ten-year project: a book of New Testament portraits...
...news that 1954's cotton plantings, which had been cut 21% under 1953's. largely as a result of Government controls, would produce only 12 million bales v. 16.5 million last year. But corn production, despite a 17.4% cut in acreage, was estimated at 3.3 billion bu., about 135 million more than last year's crop and nearly 255 million higher than the ten-year average...