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...occurred in the last six months of 1955. The crescendo of terror in 1951 and the skillfully timed and carefully calculated applications of terror since had their cumulative effect. One of the most enduring and resilient of peoples apparently gave up hope. Whatever those hopes had been-an internal breakdown, a return of the Formosa Nationalists, or simply, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, "hope from without"-six years of unremitting terror had finally crushed them. On this important fact most of the foreign agencies whose work it is to observe, analyze and report on Communist China...
...than two miles from the University of Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration possible in the Deep South in the foreseeable future, nonetheless has given full coverage to the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses (TIME, Jan. 16). It has devoted columns...
Last week the Republicans moved ahead on the Gallup question: "Which party can best keep America prosperous?" The breakdown: Republican 38%, Democratic 34% (no difference or no opinion 28%). This indicates a basic shift in voter atti tudes, which is the Republican Party's best hope for 1956-if Ike does...
...Mozart joined the Freemasons in an attempt to find comfort. His Magic Flute, based on a Masonic theme, was a success, but he was by then too sick (a "general breakdown") to enjoy it very much. He was writing his last, heartrending begging-letters and struggling to finish the Requiem that was to be "my death-song." "I have nothing more to fear," he wrote to his old friend, da Ponte. "I have come to an end before having had the enjoyment of my talent. Life was indeed so beautiful, my career begun under such fortunate auspices; but one cannot...
...missile into an overall concept: we seek "to increase the deterrent power of America's military might so as to restrain war in all its forms." At week's end Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reported to the Senate Armed Services Committee his service-by-service budget breakdown...