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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue cross upon the puffy features of Mao Tse-tung on the Jan. 13 cover. The distributor hand-stamped the thousand or more copies (exclusive of those for the U.S. military) that circulate in Taiwan. Earlier, the Taiwanese have occasionally stamped our pictures of Red Chinese figures with the word Kungfei, or Communist bandit. Deliveries of the X-ed issue were several days late, but the Nationalists had their figurative revenge and the last word in Taiwan on Chairman Mao as far as TIME was concerned. We feel they also provided an intriguing comment on the Chinese mentality...
Without a word to the world, Svetlana received a U.S. visa and an air ticket. Traveling as "S. Allilueva"-her mother's maiden name-she flew on to Rome, accompanied by Embassy Second Secretary Robert Rayle. Then suddenly the story broke, and reporters and photographers turned out in force. Searching for Svetlana, they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet...
...fiery lawyer and orator named Alexander Kerensky, defied the Czar and sat down to form a coalition provisional committee to take charge. The garrison of Petrograd backed up the Duma, and it was the commander of Petrograd, with the support of all the other army commanders, who sent word to the Czar demanding that he abdicate. Surprisingly, the Czar meekly obeyed...
...Federal Government last week declared its determination to eradicate measles from the U.S. in 1967. Up the chain of command from Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the U.S. Public Health Service to President Johnson went the word: from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 children aged one to seven will be vaccinated this year, largely with the aid of federal funds funneled through 42 state and 61 city-county programs...
...inertia is the proper word to describe trends of upward mobility in the hierarchies already discussed, then a much stronger term is required when one examines the new blood at policy-making levels. With minor adjsustments, policy-making in China rests with the Politburo elected a decade ago, and the execution of these policies is the responsibility of a small Central Secretariat elected at the same time. Officially, the Politburo now consists of 22 men and the Secretariat of 15 (seven of whom are currently on the Politburo). But as the readers of the Chinese press know...