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...asylum in England as an anti-Communist refugee who loosened a few rivets in Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain. Edna is still reading about the exploit in the papers when Charles shows up with Eva and announces that she will stay the week. With her intuitive antennae out a mile, Edna spots Eva as phony, senses that Charles knows it too and soon realizes that Charles knows that she knows...
...Democrats, for their part, were solidly lined up to exploit McCarthy's discomfiture. When he wrote a 2,000-word letter to Senators John L. McClellan, Stuart Symington and Henry M. Jackson, asking them to return to their seats, all three sent back a firm "Thanks, no." Wrote Jackson: "I can find nothing in your letter that indicates any change in subcommittee policies or any desire to afford subcommittee members the authority, right and voice commensurate with their responsibility...
Acid Bulbs. Last month the British-owned tramways provided just such a provocation. To give its workers a bonus and cost-of-living allowance, the company increased the fare by one pice (one-third of a cent). Bengalis objected, and the Communists made haste to exploit the issue...
...answers to all five turn on the interpretation of one: widespread signs of unrest in the Soviet empire. The Americans, eying the headlines on troubles in Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, are vaguely aware of a chance to exploit the Reds' weakness and strike a blow for freedom. The question is where and how, and answers are not yet forthcoming (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Europe, by contrast, seems more relieved than challenged. Far from seeking ways to press the West's advantage, the French in particular seem to regard the Soviet "thaw out" and the East German uprising...
Your story . . . made my blood boil. I did not realize it was legally possible to exploit one's children in such a manner...