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...when the Arab-Israeli war was coming to a boil, Henderson advocated a U.N. trusteeship for Israel. He was unfairly accused of anti-Semitism (Walter Winchell yowled that he was the tool of the big oil interests because the Arabian American Oil Co. had air-conditioned his apartment). When the U.S. recognized Israel, Henderson once more became an embarrassment and was shipped out as Ambassador to India. He and Pandit Nehru quickly developed a keen mutual dislike for each other...
Inside Guatemala, tension rose to the boil. Labor and peasants presented with farms of their own under the land-reform program pledged loyalty to Arbenz and the Communists; the remote Indians, as ever, were mute and apart. But in the capital, which had elected an anti-Communist mayor in 1951, the government discovered "plot" after "plot"-and across the border in Honduras, Castillo Armas was almost ready...
...Percy act apologetic, ashamed and guilty. He and Edwina seemed perfectly mated, but Percy refused to mate. He was in love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...
There was increasing turmoil over the long-postponed EDC decision. Russia's Molotov brought matters to a boil by ruthlessly dismissing the idea that there was a way to negotiate an honorable peace in Indo-China...
...Time of the Fire by Marc Brandel (Random House; $3) is a workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...