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Pollster George Gallup sent his interviewers out across the U.S. to ask: "Do you think the U.S. and the other Western countries can live . . . peacefully with the Russians-or do you think there is bound to be a major war sooner or later?" Last fortnight Gallup reported the results: 64% believe a major war is likely...
...When Rhee balked at this, fishing boats stayed in port, buses ground to a halt, some 300 factories closed down for lack of fuel, and seven desperate Koreans, trying to tap a U.S. pipeline for gasoline, were killed in an explosion. Still stubborn old Syngman Rhee stood fast. A fortnight ago the U.S. Army began paying its 100,000 Korean employees and contractors in greenbacks, not at the 310-to-$1 rate...
...Lions' lot is not always so easy. A fortnight ago, they had to come from behind twice before they beat...
...some of the strangest and loveliest music ever played since jazz was born. They listen in garish cellars and august concert halls. They listened last summer in Los Angeles' Zardi's, last month in Boston's Storyville and Manhattan's Basin Street, and a fortnight ago they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer...
...rental idea has taken hold both of commercial galleries and of museums interested in helping local artists, and is now sweeping the country. New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara all boast rental services, and they are by no means all. Last fortnight Chicago's Art Institute joined the parade; last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center did the same...