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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the talks going nowhere, China is preparing for the worst. The latest evidence of Peking's efforts to condition its huge populace to the possibility of war comes from two U.S. citizens who were seized by Chinese fishing junks last February while yachting between Hong Kong and Macao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Bayonets and Bomb Shelters | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Mountain Refuge. Militia training has been stepped up everywhere. Visitors to the recent Canton trade fair report that a huge tunnel complex has been built beneath the city that will enable downtown residents to flee to the relative safety of White Cloud Hill nine miles away. Washington discounts rumors that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Bayonets and Bomb Shelters | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

When the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (A.S.C.A.P.) decided to celebrate Rudolf Friml's 90th birthday with a grand to-do at Manhattan's Shubert Theater, they couldn't locate him: he was on a concert tour in Europe. Deaf but spry, his hair still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Top Priority. In an announcement that was precedent-setting for Detroit, he committed the Ford Motor Co. "to an intensified effort to minimize pollution from its products and plants in the shortest possible time." Top priority in Ford's program will be given to cleaning up the internal-combustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ford's Better Idea | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Mount Storm's air is being fouled by emissions from the smokestacks of two huge coal-burning power plants owned by Virginia Electric and Power Co. Since the plants were fired up in 1966, harvests of Mount Storm's tree farmers have tumbled by as much as 90...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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