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Breathing fire like a paper dragon, Nationalist China still plans to use her veto for the first time in ten years in order to block the admission of 18 new members to the United Nations. This decision is known to have been taken despite two direct appeals from President Eisenhower to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. It has been taken, moreover, in the face of the clear wish of virtually every other country in the UN that the 18 new members, including Outer Mongolia, be admitted to the world organization...
...research department. The four women in the department-the top one being Shirley Booth-are walking information centers and phone-answering encyclopedias. But elsewhere in the organization, the human brain has been successfully replaced by electronic ones, and soon, menacing the four women's livelihood, a huge mechanical dragon appears in Research...
...overseas industrial exhibition that Red China has yet attempted, the entrance to Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red and gold dragon writhed in the streets and clouds of confetti burst over the eager crowds. Then it rained for a week and the lions began to come apart. By last week the enthusiasm for the fair of many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with China...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...gave an official opinion about the much-disputed case of Aikichi Kuboyama, radioman of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, who died last year of hepatitis (with jaundice symptoms) six months after his craft was hit by fallout ashes from the first U.S. experimental H-bomb blast at Bikini. Japanese doctors insisted that the hepatitis had been caused by radiation damage, and Kuboyama became a propaganda hero to the Communists. But, said Assistant U.S. Defense Secretary Frank B. Berry last week, endorsing the opinion of U.S. doctors who had investigated the case, "the man most certainly died of ordinary jaundice...