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Unities & Divisions. With the dispatch of men who are agreed, the five quickly organized themselves into the "Permanent Council of the Baghdad pact," picked Baghdad as their permanent seat, set up a permanent secretariat and standing military and economic committees. There would be no joint command staff like NATO's; the council's permanent deputies would simply be the respective ambassadors stationed in Baghdad...
Doing Too Much. Butler seemed wan and tired as he stepped up to the dispatch box amid Labor jeers and Tory silence. He started with the good news, pointing out that his "credit squeeze" (TIME, Aug. 8) had strengthened sterling and "effectively halted" the loss of Britain's reserves. British industrial production is still growing at the rate of almost 6% a year, yet "in spite of new production records, we are faced with a shortage of steel . . . For every individual unemployed there are now more than two vacancies . . . Imports have been 11% higher than they were in corresponding...
Ross admitted that if several numbers in a row were found to be obscene, a withhold-from-dispatch order might be issued--but even this order would probably be held up until a review of the case. In short, he said, the Post Office has "no right to control the contents of magazines...
...August 27, Postmaster General Arthur J. Summerfield's department issued a withhold-from-dispatch order to prevent Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
...felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together, and the final dispatch of their bodies to Valhalla in the flames of a funeral pyre wrote a tawdry Wagnerian finish to the evil story...