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...billfolds or handbags have frequently got themselves into trouble and long angered Party bosses. German Communist leaders finally had a bright idea: they directed that in future, Party membership cards must be carried in a specially designed bag made of transparent plastic, hung from the neck on a silk cord. A female comrade, reported by the Communist press to have protested that the new order seemed directed only at men, was assured that Communist women should also carry the bag, suspended between their breasts. Said Berlin Communist headquarters: "The highest document we own must be carried near to our hearts...
...Cord (U.S.): "A solemn expression of streamlining" with "a coffin-shaped hood . . .[suggesting] the driving power of a fast fighter plane...
...Firth & Brown's 72-year-old chairman, Lord Aberconway, it looked as if Hardie had cut the very spinal cord of the company when he fired the directors, including three of his ablest technicians. The government asked Lord Aberconway to stay, in spite of the fact that he also serves as chairman of the shipbuilding company. But he resigned, saying: "I feel that without their technical and business knowledge, I should not be of any. help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company...
...headache, fever and nausea, and became delirious. The next day she went to the hospital, unconscious, with a severe case of meningitis-an inflammation of the inner covering of the brain and spinal cord. A dozen doctors joined in treating her, used many of the newest "miracle drugs," eventually pulled her through...
...Hill was tall, silver-haired Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, 53, former U.S. commander in China, onetime planning chief for the Army, author of the much-discussed Wedemeyer Report. He had already put in for retirement, and he was in a position to talk freely. He did. Wedemeyer tossed a cord of fresh logs on to the dying bonfire of the MacArthur controversy, bluntly criticized not only Dean Acheson but also his own old friend, George Catlett Marshall. And he had a startling plan for dealing with world Communism: abandon the Korean campaign and come to an open break with...