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...doing in the Middle East will affect the future course of events just as much as the stuff in the headlines." Since that time, two assassinations and the law nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company have made plenty of black headlines. And Secretary Dean Acheson finally admitted a fortnight ago that conditions there "might easily deteriorate into a situation out of which war could grow...
...reward for able, patient handling of the marathon 1949 trial of the eleven Communist leaders, he appointed District Judge Harold R. Medina, 63, to the seat on the U.S. circuit court vacated by the famed Learned Hand, 79, who retired last fortnight...
...Last fortnight, the Spectator got a letter from a former British army officer, one James Callendar Braithwaite of Grahamstown, South Africa, who had read the Spectator contest and identified himself as the man who had spoken the sentence in the King David bar. His story: while he was stationed in an army camp near Nairobi, soldiers had made pets of two lion cubs. "One of the brutes cut his paw on a piece of rusty metal," wrote Braithwaite. "This did not, naturally, improve his temper, and he nearly mauled the camp chaplain. After that he (the lion, not the chaplain...
Kidney specialists, gathered in Chicago fortnight ago for the American Urological Association's annual meeting, were impatient to hear about the transplant progress. They could not hear from Surgeon Richard H. Lawler, who performs the operation, because he was in Europe and anyway they wanted the views of one of their own members. Dr. Patrick H. McNulty had been consulting urologist on the case, and he was persuaded to report
Something of a Martyr. A fortnight ago they ordered him to stop his campus preaching. Phelps moved across the road, off campus, and kept on preaching. Principal Turrell warned him again. "He accosted me in very stern language," says Phelps, "and told me that he would call the law. So I told him I had no fears. If the police arrested me I would preach to them in jail...