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...Corner of the World, has the topical interest of current news dispatches from Asia. Only the first story has a China setting (Calcutta, Saigon, Manila and Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...
...also tackled Puerto Rico's desperate need for new housing. In San Juan, for example, handsome, tropical-style homes line many an avenue, but many are close to the dismal slums of packing-box houses like El Fanguito (Little Mudhole) that stretches two miles along the tidal flats. The government's answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary to ring the slum with barbed...
...Kiphuth's Yale swimming team swept the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championships with a tidal wave of points in every event at Princeton Saturday night...
...newly arrived white sea monkeys conquered Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...
Though both Nanking and Shanghai were temporarily quiet, the situation in both remained explosive. Already violence flared at Shanghai's exits. As soon as a train backed up to the North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously...