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...implementing the Truman Doctrine, moved decisively. As the Communists, backed by their brethren from Moscow, took over Hungary's Government (see INTERNATIONAL), Secretary of State George Marshall promptly suspended the unused half of a whopping $30 million credit to Hungary. Then he gave cheer and congratulation to Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had screwed up his courage to form a new government without benefit of Italian Communists...
...wish. The independent Foreman's Association of America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...
...Methodist Council of Bishops, meeting 40-strong near Los Angeles last week, discovered a familiar mote in the eye of their Roman Catholic brethren. "The Roman Catholic Church," they declared in a committee report adopted by the council, "should cease to misinform the American people by affirmations of loyalty to democratic ideals when deliberately denying religious freedom wherever it has power...
...women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...
...made even recreation a big business. Professional sports endeavors have reached up into the million-dollar levels, and salaries and gate receipts have hitched onto a fast-ascending skyrocket. What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves up in some ivory academic tower, colleges have let the lure of lucre seep down among them, and have usually welcomed with open arms such money-making orgies as the fast-multiplying bowl games...