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Like the other U.S. and foreign newsmen assigned to cover the Bogota Conference, Dozier had not bargained for an insurrection to boot. Once it was under way, however, he-and they-faced the familiar reporter's problem of how to get their copy out on a big, fast-breaking story in which national security was (or was thought to be) involved...
...Boston's Clark & White, Inc., if it would also pay $875,000 for 28,000 radios. Clark & White accepted the proposition - and lost $580,000 on the radios; it sold them for $295,000. But it made up the loss handily - and $461,120 to boot - by selling the steel in the grey market...
...thought that China needed military as well as economic assistance. Last week it got plenty of support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least $100 million in outright military aid. To boot, the U.S. should dispatch to China "the best man that can be found"-say, General Douglas MacArthur (see below) or General Mark Clark...
...treaty negotiations in London. So long as the occupation troops of the Western powers were present, the Austrians realized, the Communists could not take over, short of armed aggression. The Russians had been stalling on the peace treaty for months; now the Western powers might do some boot dragging...
...Crimson has been pulling itself up by the boot straps during the past few weeks, in preparation for the Carnival. Over-specialization, a big bump blocking Harvard ski hopes for decades in their long climb to top ski ranks, has been assuaged somewhat...