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Power Play? Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was surprised by the plan, and particularly by the U.S. involvement in it-for John Foster Dulles, so long the butt of Socialists for his "brinkmanship," had become overnight a Socialist hero striving mightily to stay ferocious Sir Anthony from war. "Are we to take it that they also agreed with the proposition that the ships are to have pilots of their own and are to go through the canal whether or not Egypt likes it?" he demanded. What alarmed Gaitskell most was Eden's implied threat to use force without...
Love's Comedy originally engendered violent outbursts of indignation. And no small part of it was aimed at Ibsen for daring to bring a clergyman on stage. But Ibsen went still further and made him the butt of satire, epitomized by the fact that the pastor has twelve children, eight of whom troop back and forth through the set--all of them girls--and his wife is again pregnant (and will doubtless present him with a thirteenth girl...
Attended by an array of Senators, Representatives and high-priced legal eagles, seven U.S. airlines appeared before the Civil Aeronautics Board last week and proceeded to knee, butt and gouge each other like dead-end kids battling for a prize. They were in fact battling for a prize, the New York-to-Miami run, estimated to be worth up to $5.5 million annually to the line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There...
...head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone but the stranger has a good chuckle as he learns that he has been the butt of the town's annual Festival of Laughter...
...snatchers of Naples are called scugnizzi, from scugnare, which means to spin like a top. Aged anywhere from six to 20, they live in the streets, watching each other with hard, wary eyes, and working whenever they can-as lookouts for burglars, messengers for black marketeers and smugglers, cigarette-butt snipers* and racketeers of all kinds. On any night there may be thousands of them on the prowl. When the police catch them redhanded, they serve a term in the reformatory, or are taken home to their parents (if any) and are back on the streets again next...