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...Chinese Communist assault. The new list, dated Jan. 10, brings the announced cost for six months of the war to 42,713 U.S. dead, wounded and missingalmost twice the total number of ground troops dispatched to the Korean front by all other U.N. allies. The breakdown...
Reviewing Tchelitchew's new show, one critic brashly suggested that the artist had begun painting transparent heads because of a nervous breakdown, and congratulated him for having learned "to look at nerves, not as a patient, but as an artist." Nonsense, says Tchelitchew. "My nerves are very strong, though I don't know why for I was treated all my life rather badly, by critics especially. My crise de nerfs were microscopical tropical leeches that were exactly eating me to pieces...
Washington considered the breakdown of negotiations a serious setback to its hopes that Iran might be made defensible against Russia. Two years ago, a group of U.S. experts, Overseas Consultants, Inc., surveyed Iran's resources and development needs. In 1949, the Majlis set aside all oil revenues to pay for the seven-year development plan drawn up by Overseas Consultants, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949). Now, the Iran-Anglo-Iranian deadlock meant no money, no development. Meanwhile, the need for the plan had grown: Iran was reeling from crop failures, business was stagnant, half a million were unemployed...
...universities, has supported the U.M.S program as outlined by the Association of American Universities. This includes a draft of all men at age 18 for two years of military service, with some sort of deferment system to be used until there are enough men returning to prevent a full breakdown in the nation's colleges and professions...
...visitor might wonder just what keeps the P.B.H. men this side of a nervous breakdown. Running a three-ring circus is a challenge, but they all seem to relish...