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...World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis' body lay in state. Thanks to Ambassador Allen's quick action, there were no anti-American demonstrations...
...last August, a Navajo family living on its own outside the reservation celebrated an oil-lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke up in a brawl, the guests scattered-and the host's wife lay dying, her skull bashed...
...Fortnight ago, CBS got a surprise telephone call from the Soviet embassy in Washington. In response to a recent invitation, the biggest of all, Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev, had agreed to face the cameras of Face the Nation. Still wary from its experience with Molotov, Face the Nation nevertheless last week sent a crew of six to Moscow to begin preparations for a filmed "free" exchange between Khrushchev and several U.S. correspondents in Moscow to be broadcast over 92 CBS TV stations and about 150 radio stations on Sunday, June 2. To avoid the loss of time in translation...
...take land out of cultivation of price-supported crops a big bite would be taken out of farm surpluses. Both parties were so sure the bank was a good thing that they endorsed it in their platforms, even quarreled over who thought it up in the first place. A fortnight ago, as it appeared that the soil bank this year would cost more than $700 million, the House voted to eliminate $500 million in funds requested to operate the soil bank in 1958, in effect killing the bank if the action stands. Said California's Democratic Congressman...
After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii...