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...Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged the last of his visible rivals, Rudolf Slansky, and all known Slansky adherents were eliminated with their leader. Thus, in Moscow last fortnight, Gottwald stood at the apogee of his long career. Last week death struck Klement Gottwald down...
...grew up to become a high-school teacher in Haddonfield, N.J. But she never forgot her missionary childhood. After her husband died two years ago, she decided to go back to India. She got a job teaching in a school at Mussoorie, 100 miles north of New Delhi, and fortnight ago she sent a note to her mother in the U.S. saying how much she enjoyed being back. Then, one day last week, she accepted an invitation to stay overnight in nearby Dehra Dun with Mrs. Herbert Strickler, 59, wife of the executive secretary of Presbyterian missions in India...
...declared worthless, are now near par because of repayment agreements. Germany's Hugo Stinnes Corp. bonds, which sold at 12¼ during the war, last week were back to 140. As if to prove that the financially dead sometimes do rise, even in satellite countries. Poland agreed a fortnight ago to pay an installment of interest to French (but not American) holders of its bonds, which have been in default since...
...more than two weeks Dwight Eisenhower kept a watchful eye on his appointment schedule, hoping for a chance to slip away to the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club for a long weekend of golf and semi-privacy. Last fortnight a balky schedule kept him at home. But on Thursday afternoon last week, leaving a clean desk behind, the President climbed aboard his plane, the Columbine, Georgia bound...
...Impulse. A fortnight ago, with 224 other men of Company L, 39th Infantry, Edgar was in one of a series of final training exercises: an attack, with live ammunition, on a line of dummies "defending" a hill. Rifles banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...