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...eight-day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York City broke two Witness records for: 1) mass baptism, with 4,640 new members immersed in five hours; 2) assembly attendance, with some 116,802 packed in and around Yankee Stadium, and another 49,027 in a tent-and-trailer camp across the river in New Jersey...
This week the truce delegations met again, after the eight-day recess, and the U.S. proposals were put forward in executive (secret) session. Then the negotiators took another recess until June...
...world, the accepted standards of business thrift and prudence go out the window. Companies in the EPT bracket have no hesitation spending money on extravagant projects. Example: Reynolds Metals Co., wanting to show off its new Jamaica bauxite mines, chartered an ocean liner and gave 130 bigwig guests an eight-day cruise to Jamaica and back. Of the total cost, the company really picked up only 18% of the check. The remaining 82% was EPT money which, if not spent, would have gone to the U.S. Treasury...
Tantalizing Clues. To a world that had hoped for changes after Stalin's death, the eight-day offensive was bewildering, welcome, sinister. Statesmen, pundits and plain reporters marshaled and studied the facts. What did they portend? A basic change of attitude in the U.S.S.R.? An elaborate maneuver to screen further aggressions from the world? A deadly feud among Stalin's heirs? Except for the party-liners and the starry-eyed (who joined in saluting the peaceful intentions of Malenkov & Co.), no man could get to an answer. But there were some tantalizing speculations to be made...
Look about you: innocence, you will find, is rampant everywhere. Its fresh breath emanates from University Hall where IBM machines have naively arranged for an eight-day reading period. It can be felt along the river among the Houses, particuarly between the afternoon hours of one to four, and it pervades the streets, adorned periodically as they are with flapping tags attached to myriad windshield wipers. Yes, Cambridge alone might justify the babe's symbolism, but his traces are found elsewhere...