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Now with 329 comes the Great Leap Forward (well, it is, at least, a hop; and the direction is distinctly ahead). Confronted with the perennial dilemma-cover many things superficially, or fewer things well-cover editors have opted for selective excellence. Unfortunately the standard is still elusive; execution and content...
The Communist propaganda apparatus is busy nowadays with intramural squabbling between the Russians and Chinese, but its main purpose remains: to discredit the free world, through ideological friends and dupes as well as through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries...
No one had an accurate count of the casualties as frenzied knots of soldiers and civilians roamed the streets, shooting, looting and herding people to their execution with cries of "Paredón! Paredón!" (To the wall! To the wall!) Some reports put the dead at around 2...
Unlike nearly all other portraits, the paintings for TIME'S cover are not commissioned by the subjects and need not necessarily please them; they must satisfy the artist and be acceptable to the editors. They are not expected to be photographic-indeed, like all great portraiture, they must be...
Like most legal developments, the rights of the unborn child were not won easily. Under common law in medieval England, an unborn child had no legal rights and no separate identity except in cases of inheritance, abortion, and where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed...