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...audience; in the middle of a table-thumping denunciation of Stalin, he cut himself short. "But enough," he said. "The world is listening." The world was indeed listening, mostly for his reaction to the war in Southeast Asia. Khrushchev sounded rather mild-for Khrushchev. He condemned the dispatch of U.S. troops to Thailand as "unwise," and predicted that the move would lead to a Korea-style war. American soldiers, he said, "did not come to play golf...
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...
...wounded. Officials of Pernambuco state belatedly impounded what food was left (speculators had bought up most of the crop, were selling it at markups of 500% to 1,000%). The federal government declared an emergency throughout the Northeast, and the U.S. Food for Peace program prepared to dispatch 6,000 tons of beans...
...even before that happened, he would load more than 100 Negroes on two buses in just one day. He would help dispatch unemployed Negroes from Little Rock to Boston and ask Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy to care for them at Hyannisport. He would shuttle others off to Richard Nixon with demands to have the former Vice President establish them in his home town of Whittier, Calif...
...immediate favorable response by foreign officials was not accidental. "Unbeknownst to Marshall, Undersecretary Acheson had called in key English correspondents, briefed them on the upcoming proposal and urged them to dispatch the full text of Marshall's remarks in their papers," according to a member of that year's senior class, Douglass Cater, '47, now Washington editor of The Reporter.14Secretary of State Marshall in the Commencement procession...