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...last week around a semicircular table, to decide what the U.N. ought to do about the Israeli invasion of Egypt. Scarcely had they begun their deliberations when Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev scurried from the room. Returning a moment later, he self-righteously read out to his colleagues an A.P. dispatch: "Britain and France declared today their forces will occupy key positions in the Suez Canal area unless Israelis and Egyptians stop fighting within twelve hours...
Into the Balance. Even as Dulles spoke of peace and a bright future, the dusty streets of Israel echoed to the tread of reservists reporting for induction, of roaring dispatch riders, of rolling convoys of armored vehicles. Israel was declaring "partial mobilization," said Premier David Ben-Gurion, "to safeguard the security of Israel's borders." The armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia stood bound by treaty to serve together under overall Egyptian command in the event of an Israeli...
That evening, after the dispatch of a dozen roses and a note ("American Beauties for an American beauty"), the talks were cordially resumed, and for two weeks flowers and interviews followed in nightly succession at the Callas home, restaurants, cafes and at recording sessions. Interspersed were interviews by De Carvalho and other TIME reporters in Italy and elsewhere with the singer's maids, masseuse, fitter, designer, critics, conductors, fellow singers, friends, foes and the chief of La Scala's claque. De Carvalho and his colleagues scoured Italy for leads. He flew 1,300 miles to Ankara to talk...
...barrister for The People then flung his sharpest harpoon. Had Randolph even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...
...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...