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...marking the joining of Burma proper with four tribal states. Unfortunately, there is not a great deal to celebrate. Communist-led tribal bands in the interior are stepping up an ugly guerrilla war. Burma is nervous about the erratic course of Red China, with which it shares a wide-open 1,200-mile border. Even worse, the country's pell-mell plunge into socialism has pell-melled right into chaos. "This is not our kind of socialism," brooded a Polish diplomat in Rangoon last week. "It's not anybody's kind of socialism. It is very embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Some Second Thoughts | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...prospective victory in 1968 with a "moderate candidate," after a "wide-open convention" without domination by "any one element of the party...

Author: By Richard Blumenthal, | Title: Gerald Ford | 12/7/1966 | See Source »

...airy, wide-open feeling of the interior is achieved by a series of 12-ft-wide plywood baffles along the sides, slanted to let nature in while reflecting sound through the theater. The bankroll was put up largely by New York State ($960,000), the brothers Rockefeller ($1,300,000) and the Saratoga racing community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: A Place, a Show, a Win | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...qualified Harvard or Radcliffe student, undergraduate or graduate, may enter the program. Mrs. Bunting called the first stage "wide-open right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RGA, PBH Will Sponsor Service Programs Abroad | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...GUTS team played a wide-open brawling game. They switched from last week's squopp-squopp tactics -- where both team members try to cover the opposition's pieces with their own winks and shoot for the pot only late in the game -- to squidge-squopp. In this style of play, one man tries to neutralize the opposition by squopping, while his teammate goes for the score...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Tiddlywinkers Crush Cornell | 3/8/1966 | See Source »

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