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Also on last week's U.N. agenda: choosing a successor to U.N. Secretary Trygve Lie, who is resigning after seven years because of Russian disfavor. His successor must 1) get the votes of at least seven of the eleven Security Council members; 2) avoid a veto by one of the permanent Big Five (U.S., Britain, France, China, Russia); 3) secure ratification by two-thirds of the General Assembly...
...political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...
With Dertinger into disfavor went a dozen top bureaucrats, four of them Jews. Included: Max Keilsen, chief of the Soviet Union section of the East German Foreign Office, and his wife Greta; Peter Floring, head of the East European section; Georg Handcke, East German ambassador to Red Rumania. Even Premier Grotewohl himself appeared to be in danger. Secret Police Chief Wilhelm Zaisser acted without Grotewohl's orders in arresting his Foreign Minister...
...this breach however, for it made its commitment last spring, before Ivy Films broached its closed series plan, and cannot reverse itself now. We hope however that Cine's current contract will be its last. And we hope that the University will continue its policy of "looking with disfavor" on applications to import those who merely add to undergraduate competition without supplying any new or different services...
...year later, "dancing" was viewed upon with disfavor by the University. Thus, "unsuitable and unseasonable dancing in the College" became punishable by anything up to degradation to the bottom of the class, and expulsion when other means failed...