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...Third Army" of General Lee Wun-huan, headquartered near the Thai city of Chiang Mai, and the "Fifth Army" of General Tuan Hsi-wan, with a base camp near Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Flower Power Struggle | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when children switch to the conventional alphabet. As Pitman himself muses: "will skill in the wun meedium bee transferabl too skill in the second, mor compleks wun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nue alfabet | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...recent Communist Party meeting in Peking, an ambitious delegate who began to recite the once-obligatory eulogies to "the great agricultural leap" was harshly reminded by one of his colleagues that, after all, China's Communists were "not like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Forward in Reverse | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Succisa Virescit | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...going to be dull out there this afternoon," answered his friend, Wun Lung. "Let's not Delaney longer. How about a prediction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Flings 'Em | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

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