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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 19--Turkey, the West's candidate for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, went into a slight lead over Communist Poland yesterday in a new round of voting. But the Turks were well short of a two-thirds majority, and the East-West deadlock persisted...
...Secretary yesterday called for an organized, nationwide protest against the provision, noting that, when the Subcommittee last summer held hearings on the Kennedy-Clark bill, only six college presidents--all from the East coast--appeared to testify. "It would be very helpful," he said, "for college presidents from all over the country to offer to testify before the Subcommittee in person...
...labor shortage has made refugees from East Germany welcome guests instead of mouths to feed. Many German employers keep fulltime agents at the refugee reception centers; they hire about 7,000 working-age refugees a month. Supplementing these immigrants, the government itself maintains a recruiting office in Italy, this year has obtained 15,000 Italians to work in Germany, in addition to 10,000 who came unassisted...
...outnumber the audience almost every night, but the show must go on. The hero pleads with the big Broadway producer to come down and catch his act, but the brute, who later confesses that he loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every...
...rejecting the so called 'gentleman's agreement' of 1946--which apportions the seven rotating seats on the Council to the various areas--Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the British Commonwealth--we have left ourselves open to the charge that we respect agreements only when they favor us. The U.S. statement claiming that the 1946 settlement applied only to that year is a mere technicality, for in effect it has been observed ever since in the choosing of new members to the Council...