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...Fortnight ago, Stevenson warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. might not be able to keep up the battle much longer. For evidence, he cited the progressively narrower majorities favoring the U.S. stand against the Peking government, which suggested that Communist China's admission to the U.N. "may be impossible to prevent." But Stevenson in reality told only the gloomier half of a complicated story. Red China and its sympathizers in the U.N. must cross four separate legal barriers to win entrance, and at each barrier the U.S. could put up a strong and quite possibly...
...Camp. Fortnight ago, with Democratic Congressmen from the Northern and Western states solidly behind him, plus a sprinkling of Southern Democrats, Rayburn thought he could count on enough liberal Republican votes on his side to assure a majority on the floor. But then House Republican chieftains, captained by Indiana's gut-fighting Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck, decided to make opposition to the Rayburn plan an official party stand. That move dragged all but 20 or so of the Republican liberals out of the Rayburn camp. Then some of the Southern Democrats who had agreed to vote with Rayburn...
...were no more jokes about the tower's rock and roll. Its men called it "Old Shaky," and the gag was grim with fear. All the talk was about getting ashore. In letters home, and in calls via Air Force radio, their growing terror spread to their families. Fortnight ago, Civilian Engineer Eddie Robertson spoke to his wife Margaret in Medford, Mass. TT-4's legs were badly damaged, he told her. "They're trying to take us off." Back of her husband's words, Margaret Robertson heard "a loud crunching," as if the tower were...
...August Olga Ivinskaya was arrested, and a fortnight later, so was Irina. Last week, harried by queries from the West, the Soviet government admitted that Olga had been convicted in a secret trial, and sentenced to eight years' "detention," Irina to three years. In the first confused embarrassment, one Moscow official charged that Olga's crime was that she bad sold poetry translations as her own which she had actually farmed out to hard-up university students. By week's end, Moscow propagandists had improved on this: they explained that Olga had really been cheating Pasternak...
...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...