Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the world's leaders able to turn to positive ends the explosive desire for change that stalked the earth in 1958. One who did was himself among the world's growing group of soldier-trained leaders. By putting his personal mark on great events and proving once again the fundamental Christian proposition that history is shaped by individuals, not by blind fate or inexorable Marxist laws, France's Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 68, made himself the Man of the Year...
...Chinese embassy in Warsaw summoned Fu Tsun's friend, castigated him for his political "thoughts," and put him aboard the next plane for China. Disconsolate, Fu Tsun realized that the only persons to know these thoughts were himself and the "innocent" young girl. Fu Tsun's turn came in November. The Chinese embassy warned him to wind up his studies by mid-December and return to his homeland. He complained to Polish friends: "I will be made to do manual labor. This will ruin my hands. My playing will be finished." He also learned that his father...
...first moment, turn away from unclean thinking-at the first moment...
...fraught with peril. An Indian producer can afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only about 8% remains before he even pays off costs...
...Central's Perlman has his mind set on "a fresh approach." Possible solutions: turn the express business over to private freight forwarders, who could use piggyback service coordinating rail and road traffic, or let the Government take over express as parcel post...