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...other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals of the 60 United Nations...
Thick Dossiers. Of several hundred Communist kidnapings in West Berlin, this was the most flagrant, and it raised the angriest protests. Dr. Linse had been a painful thorn in the Red flank. The Investigating Committee of Free Jurists (TIME, Dec. 18, 1950) compiles thick dossiers on the crimes of East German officials, on information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that...
...moving his feet, he makes nine faultless "passes of death." Working ever closer to the bull, he sees its horns pass him at ten inches, at five, at two, until he has executed 24 passes in a row. His tunic is smeared with blood from the bull's flank, but the crowd calls for more. As Pacote moves in over the bull's horns for the kill, the animal tosses its head up in a last lunge that finds the old pro's groin and belly. The presidente of the bull ring awards Pacote the ears, tail...
...still not prepared to use Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa-based forces as a threat to Red China's flank. In Washington last week Admiral Arthur Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, reported that U.S. arms aid to Chiang is "disappointingly slow...
...What, the court asked, would Lieut. Hoefer have done at this point? "Right full rudder, hard full rudder!" he said. But the skipper, with the carrier only 750 yards away, had called, "Increase to left full-increase to hard left!" Then he signaled the engine room for flank speed. A few seconds later, with a fearful rending of steel, the Wasp crashed into the destroyer; only a few minutes after that, Commander Tierney leaped into the sea, never to be seen again...