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...Khrushchev portrait is Artist Safran's 13th cover for TIME (others: Queen Elizabeth, Jack Paar, Ludwig Erhard, Mao Tse-tung). Born in Brooklyn 35 years ago, he studied art at Pratt Institute near his home, served with aviation engineers in the China-Burma-India theater during the war (rode a truck on the Burma Road), turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover...
...Suffering People." India's new posture stiffened spines throughout Southeast Asia. In Burma the government signed a seven-year treaty with the autonomous and Chinese-infiltrated Shan and Kachin states of Burma that would for the first time put the protection of their borders with Red China under army control. The U.S. promised and prepared to deliver airborne aid to the threatened kingdom of Laos (see below). Next week Nehru will confer with Pakistan's strongman, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, who is urging a united defense of the subcontinent. At last Indians are beginning to see China...
...years Burma was so neutral that it would take foreign aid grants from no one. In a surprising policy switch last month, the Government decided to take aid neutrally from all corners-and started off with a four-year pledge of $37 million from the U.S. for road and school construction. Last week, presenting his new budget, Finance Minister Kyaw Nyein showed how well the new-style fiscal neutrality works. Among expected revenues...
From the Colombo Plan (British-and Commonwealth-backed, though Burma as a matter of fact has quit the Commonwealth...
...switch, the Burmese government of General Ne Win turned to the U.S. for help in two top-priority projects: constructing a badly needed four-lane highway from Rangoon to Mandalay and adding classroom space for 7,000 students at the University of Rangoon. The move was cheered even by Burma's original apostle of neutralism, Ex-Premier...