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...very fact that what is called "McCarthyism" is a rather elusive blur gives it a capacity to suffuse a whole national policy. As one U.S. diplomat describes it: "It is a kind of smog, discoloring all our purposes. In the thousand little things that go to make up diplomatic success or failure, it just suffices to keep the U.S. from getting the benefit of the doubt in the minds of so many. And serious decisions that often in history look so solid really amount to just that-winning the benefit of the doubt...
...Bishop Tu's private army had become the nucleus of several similar Catholic militias in the Red River Delta. Forty thousand ill-trained and lightly armed peasant-soldiers, commanded by amateur officers, succeeded in maintaining security in 70% of the delta area...
After centuries, says Dr. Stern, most of the original African genes will be widely dispersed in the numerically dominant white population. Their incorporation will make no change except a slight darkening of the national skin. Eventually, there will be a few thousand black people in each generation, and they will probably have straight hair, thin lips and thin noses. "If some person now living," says Dr. Stern, "could return at that distant time, he would ask in wonder: 'What became of the Negro...
Crackers & Canals. At the thatched village of Tangan Ri, near Seoul, last week, as onlooking Koreans cried "Mansell" (ten thousand years), the first shovelful of earth was turned to launch Bechtel's big project. In two years Bechtel will build three thermoelectric plants in Korea, thus almost double the nation's power capacity to 200,000 kw. Cost: $34 million, the largest FOA contract yet issued in Korea...
...meeting, reported on this side of the business: In our first year, TIME Canadian carried 196 pages of advertising. As the country's economy expanded and more and more industry developed in Canada, advertising in general also expanded. By 1949 we had passed the thousand mark of advertising pages in the magazine. And last year saw an alltime high, when advertisers placed a total of 2,152 pages in our Canadian edition...