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...Sureme Court and the Justice Department have acted with fine discrimination in the Cuba sugar case. By ruling 8-1 against United States sugar interests that lost property in Cuba, the Court conceded a petty victory to Fidel Castro in order to confirm an important principle of international...
...village of Chantrea four miles inside Cambodia. Sihanouk called it "savage aggression," reported that 16 Cambodians had been killed. Pleading faulty map reading, the embarrassed Saigon government admitted the intrusion, apologized, and promised indemnification. But it countered that several guerrillas had been found in the village, thus tending to confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over the Pnompenh radio, he claimed that American advisers had been in on the attack-and that a Cambodian plane shot down a U.S.-made South Vietnamese spotter plane...
...dream." Says he: "One has an impulse to bring glad tidings to someone. My sense of literature is a sense of giving, not a diminishment. I know almost no pleasure greater than having a piece of fiction draw together disparate incidents so that they relate to one another and confirm that feeling that life itself is a creative process, that one thing is put purposefully upon another, that what is lost in one encounter is replenished in the next, and that we possess some power to make sense of what takes place...
This week the Senate is expected to confirm the newly appointed commissioner of patents, the 39th since the days when Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson personally handled the 200 applications made by Americans each year. He is Edward J. Brenner, 40, a reserved, rugged patent attorney and engineer for Esso, who will need all his own inventiveness to keep from foundering in a morass of words, charts and pictures...
Reached last night for comment, Master Gill refused to confirm or deny that Sorensen would be moving into the House. Other sources said rooms for Sorensen would soon be available. They were uncertain how soon he planned to move...