Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Doyle reported Shanghai's fall to Communism, staying on longer than most other U.S. newsmen. Writing about China's new boss, Mao Tse-tung (LIFE, Jan. 23) he drew the moral of the story: "In the cities and the areas of China which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia...
...Last fall, Doyle went to Indonesia to cover the Dutch exodus and the rise of a new nation in the troubled islands (TIME, Nov. 14 et seq.). He liked the young, eager, inexperienced Republican leaders, thought they had a fair chance of establishing orderly government amid the ruins of colonial rule and the wreckage of war. After several months in Hong Kong and Siam, he went back to Indonesia to see how the new republic was getting...
Last week, after the tours ended for the season, Director Van Ravenswaay had reason to judge his idea a success. The St. Louis school board wanted the tours to continue next fall. Visiting Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had been so impressed that he promised to "tell the Massachusetts Historical Society all about it." Best of all, to Van Ravenswaay's thinking, 6,000 youngsters had written in asking for more...
Eight of the biggest service agencies of the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches* by last week had taken a big forward step in the ecumenical movement by agreeing to set up a National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Meeting in Cleveland next fall, church leaders will begin the job of establishing the council, which will represent more than 25 million members of at least 25 church bodies...
...Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre's first program. No one in the audience needed opera glasses to see how far Ballet Theatre had come in polish and precision in the interval. But the fans reserved their biggest applause for American ballets such as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend-just the kind of ballets that Lucia Chase had always maintained they would cheer...