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...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, this situation demanded double-barreled action. First, the U.S. had to make up its own mind where it stood on Indo-China. (Only last February President Eisenhower had said that involvement in Indo-China would be the greatest kind of tragedy.) Within the fortnight, Dulles clarified the U.S. position in a quick series of speeches and statements: the U.S. could not countenance the loss of Indo-China, and was prepared to apply its doctrine of instant retaliation to Communist China if Peking should take a direct hand...
...special corner, Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen hustled up to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to put across the point that he had been a very good boy indeed. He had stuck his thumb into world economic problems at the London conference (Britain, France, the U.S.) last fortnight, and the plum he was holding up for the Senators to see was a U.S. decision to go along with an expansion of trade in "nonstrategic" items between the West and Russia...
...fortnight ago, the competing Boston Herald took note of such doom, saying: "Our friend John Doom has everything figured out . . . Morning after morning ... he assures us that things are getting worse, will get still worse and soon worse than that . . . Despite Mr. Doom, children are born every day, and parents are happy about it and plan. They talk about Harvard, class of '75." John Fox fired back. Noting that he had been the subject of recent editorials in both the Daily Worker and "our dearly beloved, friendly competitor, the Boston Herald," he offered to have the circulation...
With his new buses, Caesar plans to push Greyhound's fast-growing special services such as charter buses, package express shipments and all-expense tours around the U.S. A fortnight ago, he started his first sleeping service between San Francisco and Chicago, which includes four overnight hotel stops in the fare. Price: $69.40 with a single room, $62.90 in a double room...
That night the papers carried the news which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music...