Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kicks or Instruments. The smoke screen lifted even further at the companion trial of three Turkish cops accused of beating Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James King in an attempt to make them confess to dealings with Mrs. Gall. Air Force Colonel Robert N. Wilkinson, the first U.S. officer to see the sergeants after their arrest, told the court he had not been permitted to talk to them until they had been in prison about 30 hours. When he did, "King was shaking nervously, could hardly speak, and had difficulty standing up . . . He had a secretion at the corner...
...more readers in California than New York, and its subscribers live in virtually all of the 3,044 counties in the continental U.S. The chances are good that he owns stock sold in at least one of the 14 markets whose activities the Journal logs regularly. The chances are even better that he lives in that vast community to which Journal President Bernard Kilgore has staked a grandiloquent claim: "Everyone who is engaged in making a living or is interested in how other people make a living...
...Sharp Street West, in the heart of Hong Kong, stands a handsome new eight-story building, with its grilled entrance locked round the clock. Not even the postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news...
...with surgical care. During President Eisenhower's late-summer tour of Europe, Hsinhua accounts sounded impersonal, but emphasized policy conflicts among the NATO allies: "The appearance of Eisenhower and Macmillan on TV was meant to be a show of 'cordiality' and 'solidarity' . . . yet even in such a public performance, Macmillan spoke at the beginning of the broadcast of the 'differences' between the U.S.A. and Britain." At times Hsinhua plays another role: correspondents in Cambodia send home to Red China flattering stories about the country, which are gratefully reprinted in the Cambodian press-with...
...Hsinhuaese. Currently embarked on an ambitious expansion program, Hsinhua is concentrating its greatest effort among the nations wravering between East and West. Purveying its free service, not only to the press but to government departments, foreign embassies, important business firms and even individuals, Hsinhua is making a hard pitch in the struggle for the allegiance of undecided nations...