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...last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
Family Quarrel. The Russians thus had a continuing hold on both Nasser and Kassem. The British, radiating a little more optimism than perhaps the circumstances warranted, still talked of Kassem's capacity to resist, if need be, the Communist help he depended upon to crush the Mosul revolt. (So long as Baghdad keeps independent of Cairo, the British think they can save their valuable oil principality of Kuwait from falling to Nasser.) Washington's reaction was to take no sides in what it called an Arab "family quarrel." Nasser's disenchantment with the Communists may now have...
...Grillet's disciples in the school of "New Realism" (TIME, Oct. 13), which stresses objects and description rather than people and motivation. Winner Claude Ollier's La Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered predecessor with a mortall) wounded Arab girl, may add up to a novel but not when surveyed with Ollier...
...weeks ago in Hanover, the Indians walloped the visiting Tigers, 71 to 59, but last Friday, Princeton came back in fine style to crush Dartmouth, 83 to 67. Obviously evenly matched, the two squads will both be denied the advantage of playing on their home courts...
Your article is enlightening and thoughtprovoking, but I am shocked at you for lauding G.E. and not considering the penalty labor has to pay. Cordiner's policy will not crush union power; if anything, it will make the unions stronger. He better work with them rather than against them...