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Died. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, 85, bullet-bald soldier who conquered Ethiopia for Mussolini (1935-36); in Grazzano Badoglio, Italy. Badoglio won fame and quick promotions as a field officer in World War I, was named army chief of staff in 1919. He cared little for Fascism but cooperated with Dictator Mussolini after he took over in 1922, became head of the joint chiefs of staff in 1925, resigned the post in disgrace (1940) after Italy's abortive Albanian campaign, later was called out of retirement to replace Mussolini (July 25, 1943) as head of the shaky Italian government, signed...
...Faces: while stone-bald Matyas Rakosi engulfed the Social Democrats, and began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude...
...week began, the people of Poland were headily engaged in a life-and-death gamble with their nation's future. They had for the first time made a hero out of a Communist: taut, bald Wladyslaw Gomulka. He promised only to take . them on the "Polish road to Socialism." Now everything turned on whether or not the U.S.S.R. would accept the new order peaceably...
Died. Walter Gieseking, 60, bald, hulking amateur butterfly collector and strict vegetarian who ranked with the world's best pianists; after surgery for pancreatitis; in London. He became known to post-World War I audiences for his subtlety, grace and color, rather than for flashing technique, rose to greatness as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, played gladly for German audiences during the Nazi reign, was greeted by jeering pickets on his first postwar tour of the U.S., returned to Germany without playing, later toured in the U.S. successfully...
Action must come from the General Assembly where the Soviet Union has no veto power, and where the bald imperialism and totalitarianism of Russia will be exposed to nations everywhere...