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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noise from Peking showed no sign of diminishing, and continued to fascinate the non-Communist world with fresh tales of old skeletons in Communist closets. In one announcement, Red China took full credit for forcing a weak-kneed Khrushchev ("who had decided to abandon Socialist Hungary to counterrevolution") to send Russian tanks into Budapest and crush the 1956 uprising. Peking radio also made an unprecedented reference to important factional disputes within the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Khrushchev was accused of openly voicing support for "antiparty elements" in China. Western experts believe the Chinese "elements" Khrushchev was supporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Self-Bound Gulliver | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Young James McCIain was pathetically small and weak when he started his family's procession into the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa three years ago. The boy had suffered since birth from a narrowing of the valve between his heart and lungs, and a hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardiology: Five of a Kind | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...opinion she makes the Diem government seemingly and literally weak and indecisive. An impulsive, violent and radical person should not have the authority to shape the destiny of a country over which she has no legal powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1963 | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...would be infinitely more efficient, and more democratic, than the "empty velvet glove" with which Britain is now trying to defeat organized crime. "The danger in a democracy," said he, "does not lie in a central police that is too strong but in local police forces that are too weak." In day-to-day police work, the lack of liaison between forces-more than 50% have fewer than 350 men-inevitably helps the criminal. Another boon to careful crooks: a law by which police are only allowed to file fingerprints of convicted criminals, not of suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Bobbies in Trouble | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Paul Schmidt, as Fadinard, was also largely responsible for the shortcomings of the performance. Labiche created a part that could be played many ways; Schmidt's totally distraught, rather weak and frantic bridegroom is not one of them...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: 'Italian Straw Hat' at Loeb | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

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