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...Chinese side of the frontier the terrain is equally bad. In fact, the only satisfactory invasion route into India from the north is the one that has been trod since time immemorial by Aryans, Greeks, Huns, Mongols and Persians: from central Asia, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and down onto the Punjab plain. But that would involve the consent of Russia, as well as war with Pakistan. At the moment the Soviet Union is insisting on its friendship to India and is urging restraint upon Red China...
Lithe and energetic, crewcut, always hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been...
...simply to produce children-sons, not daughters. For 250 years under the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's population was kept stable largely by female infanticide.* Of the girls permitted to live, those who became prostitutes in order to support their parents were praised for filial piety. Every woman trod the Path of the Three Obediences: to her father before marriage, to her husband when she was wed, to her son if she became a widow. "The Japanese wife needs no religion," ran the saying. "Her husband is her sole heaven...
Congratulations. to Mr. Alec Gushing on his wit rather than his memory. It seems that he or someone forgot the prologue to the Squaw Valley drama. Might it not have been more accurate to mention the name of Marti Arrougé, the young Basque who trod the warm earth of Squaw Valley through many young summers following the bands of his father's sheep, who lost his only brother in one of its clear lakes and whose nimble skis have caressed its every slope? It was Arrougé who was the original partner of Wayne Poulsen; together they supplied...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...