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...after Johnson's speech, newsmen at the President's press conference asked the President about Yalta. Did he record or did he remember a decision that he reached at that time as to the rightness or wrongness of Yalta? The President was brisk-and very positive. Said he: "No." Then he pointed out that he did not go to Yalta, but sent his chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, to the pre-Yalta conference at Malta to report on the military situation as it then existed in Europe...
...meet a fourth (Laurence Harvey), who persuades them to steal a shipment of old bank notes from a mail truck. When the job is done, the villain slaughters all three of his accomplices, but in the last reel the meat wagon comes around for him, too. The playing is brisk, but the story takes too long to untangle itself. The good die somewhat...
...busy, windswept days last week, Japan's Premier toured Osaka and Kobe, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a brisk, U.S.-style election campaign. He made a big hit. A caretaker Premier for only ten weeks, savvy Old Politician Hatoyama was determined to win a longer lease on the job. He did not hesitate to promise the moon, or to strum the samisen strings of renascent Japanese nationalism...
...began with a good omen. Handsome Dave McDonald, president of the United Steel Workers, one of the three C.I.O. negotiators, could hear through the left ear for the first time in seven years ("miraculously" cured by a doctor in his hotel). The six unionists were affable but brisk and businesslike. For seven hours they negotiated with professional ease. Lunch was brought in (club sandwiches, cake and coffee...
...military band struck up Haiti's national anthem, then The Star-Spangled Banner. As cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, Magloire led the Vice President at a brisk pace to review the guard of honor. "You will find a warm welcome here," said the Vice President. "America," replied the visitor in French, "is making one of the greatest efforts undertaken for the true liberation...