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...result of McCarthy's headline-grabbing extremes, said Flanders, the U.S. is being diverted from far more serious, more dangerous problems. One by one, Flanders twanged off the names of world trouble spots: Korea, Indo-China, sick France and dissension-torn Italy, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with its spreading infection of Communism. "In very truth," said Flanders, "the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong warfare between God and the Devil for the souls of men. In this battle of the agelong war, what is the part...
Japan's businessmen are partly to blame for this state of affairs. Instead of using Korean war profits to retool their plants, pack new muscle on Japan's war-torn industry so it could compete better in the free world, they squandered much of the money on modern office buildings, long, black limousines, English tweeds and expensive parties. But the real crisis will not come, say some observers, until Japan's reserves drop to $600 million. Thoughtful businessmen, who long ago warned that the end of the Korean war would hit the economy hard (TIME, April...
...That night the girl disappears without a trace. Is she dead? If so, by her own hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl's parents are torn by anxiety and self-accusation, her aunt rocks clean off her rocker, the whole town is talking malicious gossip. All at once the girl reappears, unharmed. Q.E.D.: small towns will be small towns...
...move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...
Turkey has set a notable example for countries in search of U.S. capital. Instead of putting up barriers to private investment, such as have been erected in many countries, Turkey has torn them down...