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...Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then...
...alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees to maintain troops in Continental Europe. Inside Laniel's Cabinet are Gaullists who are solidly against EDC. Most of EDC's support is in the center and moderate left. Yet a fortnight ago Jules ("The Lizard") Moch, a staunchly anti-Communist Socialist, gave the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee a thick, hostile report on EDC that amounted, as one commentator said, to "a dictionary of objections...
Latin American diplomats, preparing for the session for months, were much disturbed at the reassignment last fortnight of Assistant Secretary John Moors Cabot, Dulles' top Latin American hand, to the post of Ambassador to Sweden. Almost to a man, they believe that Cabot was moved out because he had urged greater use of Export-Import Bank loans to finance Latin American economic development, and was overruled by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who favors letting the World Bank take over that responsibility. Now, though Cabot will still go to Caracas as Dulles' adviser, the Latinos are wondering...
Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who took off from a Hollywood movie set last fortnight and landed on the couch of his Manhattan psychiatrist, was sued for $2,000,000 by 20th Century-Fox, which called him irreplaceable in his role in The Egyptian, but said that his couch time was costing the studio...
...Concordat? Out of the Rome express at Paris' Gare de Lyon one drizzly morning fortnight ago stepped the Master General of the Dominican Order, the most Rev. Emanuel Suarez. He slipped into a waiting car which drove straight to Dominican headquarters in the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and a nervous welcome...