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Before the paint was dry on the $3,000, 000 temporary new U.N. building, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
Midway in the roll call on the $5.7 billion tax bill, the House chamber began to buzz with excitement. It was clear that the bill (TIME, Oct. 22) was going down to defeat. The big surprise was that 64 Democrats, some of them swayed by a last-minute letter from the C.I.O. urging rejection, jumped, the traces to join the Republicans in voting...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
...week long, in the somber, paneled office in Tokyo's DaiIchi Building once occupied by Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Ridgway had directed the moves, as cool and poised as a duelist. Outside his office, the busy buzzers and flashing lights resembled a pinball machine. At every flash or buzz, an aide shot into action...
Opportunity? The world promptly started to buzz with truce talks. In Oslo, where he was vacationing, U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie delightedly and uncritically pounced on the Malik statement. Said Lie: "The first step . . . must be a cease-fire." The "ceasefire should involve only the military arrangements necessary to stop the fighting and to insure against its renewal . . . The political issues involved . . . can then be appropriately discussed in the competent organs...