Word: war-torn
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...shaky wooden table outside his shop on Seoul's crowded South Gate Road last week, a gold-toothed leather craftsman tacked a crudely lettered sign: "Be-cus no more fight, no more gun holster but al kine camera bag." Throughout war-torn South Korea, from the open-sewered streets of Pusan to the rice-rich fields just below the front lines, there were similar signs of economic stirrings...
Died. John Home Burns, 36, Harvard-educated schoolteacher turned novelist best known for his 1947 bestselling portrayal of American G.I.s in war-torn Naples (The Gallery) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Leghorn, Italy...
...experts were wrong. Instead, postwar Europe's dominant force turned out to be Christian Democracy. Today, Christian Democrats govern or share heavily in the governing of every war-torn country of Western Europe; most of their Premiers and all of their foreign ministers (except The Netherlands') are Christian Democrats. All are disciples of European unity, all share an overall philosophy, all-perhaps by political accident-are Roman Catholics. When Italy's De Gasperi, West Germany's Adenauer and France's Bidault sit down to negotiate a treaty or discuss the future, they draw from...
...funds. The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, Phillips Brooks House, the Salzburg Seminar, and the World Student Service Fund, depend almost completely on money raised through colleges. The WSSF, the one notable addition to last year's drive, sends its funds to rehabilitate student centers in war-torn countries. The other causes, such as the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and the Children's Medical Center, are well deserving of support...
TIME Correspondent Philip Payne, after journeying by mule into the war-torn territory east of Bogota, last week cabled an account of the ordeal of a village...