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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...
...churches, peace for the dead." Meanwhile, throughout Red Emilia, farmers and workers, priests and parishioners were peering through weed-grown cemeteries to see what other instances of mortuary Marxism they could find. Most notable example, in addition to dozens of hammers and sickles: the well-known Italian version of the revolutionary slogan-"Push on, 0 people, push on to Redemption Day"-painted on a headstone...
...publisher of the now defunct Boston Post (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956), John Fox, 51, batted out a bullish financial column (pseudonym: Washington Waters) and choleric editorials for his paper, thus giving Post staffers their own version of the standard typewriter-testing sentence: "Quick John Fox jumped over the lazy editorial writer's back." Last week, after ten months of jumping over creditors' backs, fast-moving ex-Publisher Fox was finally arrested to face indictments charging him with nonpayment of $27,000 in wages to 93 Post staffers. After appearances before two judges and a brief sojourn in Suffolk...
...sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek new T-bird will be another entry in Ford's luxury-class race against General Motors' Cadillac, has been restyled for $30 million to look like a small version of the Continental Mark II. It comes with a standard 3OO-h.p. Thunderbird V-8 engine. The wheelbase has grown by a full 11 in. to 113 in., and the overall length by 2 ft. Also changed is the price tag, by about $200 over the 1957 list...
...lovable as a kitten and no more frightening. In two earlier filmings of Victor Hugo's romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades, and the film plays hearts-and-gargoyles...