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...does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example, a broad-based group of Easterners has invested from $10 upward individually to found a cooperative radio station in Washington, devoted to the public interest and freed from the lone motive of profit of the ordinary out-let or, on the other hand, the possibly prejudiced orientation of the labor-owned stations springing up. Here is one method applicable to the entangled dilemma of journalism--although a new newspaper's circulation battle is admittedly far more critical...
...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...
...Iberian peninsula. Through the successive invasions of the Romans, Goths, Arabs and Berbers, they survived and grew in number. Under Moslem rule, the Spanish Jews produced an elite of brilliant poets and philosophers, and of wealthy bankers. But in the 14th Century, after most of Spain had been freed from Moslem rule by Spanish Christians, the Jews became a persecuted people...
...liberation, Celeste disappeared; for a year, there was no trace of her. Then a Jewish veteran of the Italian army recognized her in a Naples brothel. After two years in jail, she was tried and, although she denied everything, sentenced to twelve years. Last spring a general amnesty freed her. She became a Roman Catholic. But she kept thinking of the ghetto she had left. She decided she wanted to see it again. Last month, she went home...
...went out on strike. They went back three days later, but trouble started again. Powell had an argument with Ronald Hegedish, a new boy, pushed him against a wall. The boy's father swore out a warrant against Powell for assault. Powell was arrested Dec. 9, freed on bond pending a hearing...