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...Last fortnight the Red negotiators at Panmunjom seemed to be making a big concession when they agreed-in principle -to supervision of the armistice (after it is signed) by behind-the-lines inspection. Last week, when the matter was handed over to two-man subcommittees, it soon became clear that the big Red concession was as full of tricks as a magician's trunk. The situation at week's end: deadlock...
...Last fortnight 1,000 Chinese piled into a ragtag armada of junks, sampans, rubber boats and barges, and attacked Taehwa, the largest of the three islands, in three waves. Under cover of shore batteries from Communist-held islands nearby, the attackers waded ashore through mudflats on Taehwa's north side. The South Korean defenders-among whom were a handful of U.S. liaison officers and technicians-were not only surprised but outnumbered. In 14 junks of their own they quickly evacuated the island from the south. With Taehwa gone, the" two smaller islands fell easily to the enemy...
Flying down to the Louisiana State game a fortnight ago, Nick was unaccountably silent. The Saturday before, up in Nick's home territory, Villanova had taken a 20-13 defeat from Boston College. This time, the iron man himself had not snapped back. Moody and morose, he sat staring straight ahead in the plane, deaf to all efforts to cheer...
...clear, terse, political editorials. But lately Editorialist Crider, onetime New York Timesman (16 years), has not seen eye to eye with Herald Publisher Robert Choate on GOPolitics. Though both privately favored General Eisenhower, they disagreed on how Senator Taft and other G.O.P. candidates should be treated by the Herald. Fortnight ago, Crider ran an editorial which shredded Senator Taft's new book, A Foreign Policy for Americans. Wrote Crider: "Standing against what Mr. Taft says he's for is what he voted against." Yet, across the page, the Herald's political pundit, W.E. Mullins, praised the book...
...Until a fortnight ago, when he won the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, 60-year-old Pär Lagerkvist was little known outside his native Sweden. But at home he has long enjoyed a solid reputation. Thirty years ago, he was writing plays that reminded fellow Swedes of their countryman, August Strindberg. Since those days he has turned out a steady flow of poetry, drama, novels and short stories...