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...moment it landed in Liverpool, Paul J. Tusek's 1906-model Stanley Steamer turned the first Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames...
Responses last week to an Anglo-American invitation to attend a preliminary SEATO conference (probably at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital) some time early next month...
...four years that he headed O.F.P.O.C., John apparently did an outstanding job of eradicating Communist subversion in West Germany, and had the complete trust of the Anglo-American occupation authorities. A year ago he helped smash a Communist spy ring; a fortnight ago his evidence led to the legal banning in the West of the East Zone Youth Movement...
...subjects ranging from Indo-China to the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week four more experts (NBC's Richard Harkness and Romney Wheeler, the Denver Post's Palmer Hoyt and the Manchester Guardian's Washington cor respondent Max Freedman) dealt more coherently with the single subject: Anglo-American relations...
...items on this huge agenda press most urgently, yet Washington's advance "positioning" of the Churchill-Eden visit stresses relaxation. Secretary Dulles says that the talks will be like those of men of affairs gathered in a smoking room. President Eisenhower, at his press conference, said that the Anglo-American alliance is like a bridge across the Potomac: thousands use it every day, and that is not news, but let the bridge fall, and it would instantly be news. He and Churchill are not trying to make news but to keep the bridge strong...