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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China policy recommendations do not, as you correctly report [Nov. 30], meet with the approval of either the Red Chinese or the Nationalist Chinese. I have been expressing them publicly since 1954, and I believe an increasingly large number of Americans hold the same opinions...
...poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry) and a clever young man assail or try to enlighten the general, not because he dreams but because his dreams have...
...Golden Fish (J.-Y. Cousteau; Columbia). Once upon a time there was a goldfish. It lived in a tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor...
...Complicated Canon. Hedley is known at Mills as a courtly, gentle man with a lively interest in a number of things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where...
...brand new chapter of AIESEC, Radcliffe will try to get as many jobs as possible lined up since the number of jobs obtained will determine how many students will participate. The program is based on a one-for-one exchange. "Positions desired are in management training or office work which will acquaint exchange students with overall operations," Mrs. Lord said. Students in the program can specify both country and nature of work...