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Like Communists everywhere, Red China's rulers try to shield themselves from the view of the non-Communist world. Yet week by week; news flows out of Red China-from the 1,500 Chinese who arrive every day in Hong Kong, from foreigners leaving the country, from letters, from Communist newspapers and radio. To sift, compare, and report this news, TIME placed Correspondent Robert Neville in Hong Kong. On this page is a week's grist from the Hong Kong bureau's mill...
...foil has the smallest bell (hand shield) of the fencing weapons. The object is to hit the opponent only in the torse and with the point of the foil. Five touches are necessary to win a bout. Foils matches, as well as sabre and epee, are fought in a small rectangle with the participants wearing masks and chest protectors...
...reply came at last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...
...four separate items, a brush a razor, after shaving lotion, shaving soap, and a space to hold blades. The whole thing measures four inches across. It's a great gimmick for people who make overnight trips. Complete, it comes to $7.50 and it has a special 14 karat gold shield on the top where initials can be engraved. Shreve, Crump and Lowe will handle the works before your Christmas exodus. This traveling iron is another article from Shreve's. Imported from England it's a necessity for people who travel. About four inches long it's made for use both...
Gone are the small-print clauses; there remains a list of eight charities, chosen by the drive committee, which are only superficially obscured by a large pink veritas shield. The committee reports that it chose these charities carefully, basing its decision mainly on the percentage of its income which the organization devotes to actual charity work, as opposed to publicity...