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Secret Admirers. Morse's skill as a parliamentarian has helped save many Administration bills, and last month it helped the Democratic majority push through the biggest school-aid-authori-zation bill in history. By the time he takes the floor with a bill, Morse, No. 2 Democrat on the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, knows not only every detail in the bill but also who will oppose it-and just when he must compromise. He is consulted by the President on every important labor dispute. But primarily because of his Viet Nam policy, Morse's longtime supporter, Oregon...
...Gaza Strip two months ago in an effort to stop the shooting. The unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse...
...week's end the Immigration authori ties swung into action. They picked up Belfrage, charged that he was an alien engaged in Communist activity in the U.S., and took him to Ellis Island to await deportation under the McCarran...
...contracts for hydroelectric generators and dockside cranes away from the British in both India and Formosa. It is already nudging into first place in the world's exports of cotton cloth; her sales so far this year indicate a 1950 market of 1,000,000,000 yards. Occupation authori ties estimate that Japan will have to sell more than $1 billion worth of goods to be self-sustaining; her estimated 1950 exports of $570 million will pass the halfway mark...
Invited by Mexican and British authori ties to Mexico to conduct a festival of three Mozart operas, Sir Thomas arrived to find a rival opera season in full swing at Mexico City's only opera house. Promised Government support for his festival had failed to materialize. One of his leading singers, Basso Carlos Rufino, had recently shot an amatory rival in a Mexico City movie theater and was giving rehearsals a discouragingly defensive tone by packing a pistol...