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Eastland Goes West. Thus it was last fortnight that, when the I.L.W.U. staged a mammoth testimonial dinner for convicted Boss Hall at Honolulu's Kewalo Inn, a sprinkling of venturesome politicians were among the 800 diners. Among the venturesome : highly respected Territorial Attorney General Edward N. Sylva, 54, a prominent Catholic, and longtime Communist foe as chairman of the Territorial Commission on Subversive Activities. Sylva explained he had been invited by the rank and file, accepted their invitation to see how the I.L.W.U. conducted itself. But he sat through some misconduct he had not anticipated...
...much of the world, however, the increasing lack of faith in the U.N. was suddenly replaced a fortnight ago by a surge of hope when the armless parliament succeeded in obtaining the ceasefire in Egypt. Said one prominent Egyptian last week: "Arabs have a new attitude toward the U.N. They realize now that it is not simply a camouflage for the ambitions of the big powers." In Germany, Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung conceded: "One must state with astonishment that the U.N. is stronger than it seemed." Even New York's xenophobic Daily News (which usually wishes that...
...Yoshio Oyama was a skilled veteran in deep-sea diving. For 20 years he had flirted, unscathed, with underwater hazards, of which the deadliest is the invisible "bends"-nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood and forming bubbles that cause excruciating pain or paralysis. A fortnight ago, Veteran Diver Oyama met the bends...
During Fryer's fortnight in Budapest, Worker readers saw only one of his dispatches, a wishy-washy interview with a British Communist living in Hungary. In his letter of resignation, published by the Worker when he threatened to "seek other means" of getting out the truth, Fryer disclosed that the dispatch had been heavily cut and two others had been killed altogether. Reason: they showed that Soviet intervention was "both criminal and unnecessary...
Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...