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Maneuver. For three days, the coalition used all the tricks of parliamentary procedure to get the sting into a simple Administration resolution aimed at endorsing the dispatch of whatever U.S. troops were needed to provide a "fair share" of Western Europe's defenses. Amendment after amendment was thrown in from the Wherry-Taft sector. But it was men within the President's own party who performed the big maneuver...
...campaign to raise the U.S.S. Monitor, the famous Union ironclad which fought an historic battle with the Confederate ship Merrimac on March 9, 1862. The ship was discovered in 120 feet (20 fathoms) of water, 20 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, according to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday. Sixth Naval District spokesmen said they have "no plans" for raising...
...Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch saw him as "an unscrupulous demagogue who would not hesitate to play ball with Stalin," while the Dallas News prophesied that he "can exist only by a constant accretion of power. This, in the end, will kill...
...have fought for national defense have been waiting for." Last week, after months of wearying debate, the Senate finally came to grips with the first two major issues of the 82nd Congress: the extension of the draft bill (due to expire July 9) and the dispatch of troops to Europe. But before the week was out, the Congress seemed on the verge of making a hash out of one and a hedge out of the other...
...more puzzling characters is a ubiquitous fellow named Pashik. Mousy little Pashik carries a black dispatch case in which he keeps stale meat sandwiches and a revolver. He keeps urging Foster to stay out of trouble. For some reason Foster trusts him and, as it turns out, Foster knows his man. Pashik proves to be a sturdy and reliable lover of freedom after all-and perhaps a symbol of something Author Ambler thinks the totalitarians can never entirely suppress, no matter how hard they...