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Secretary of State Dean Acheson looked trim and cool in a grey tropical suit when he walked into Room 212 in the Senate Office Building last week and faced the Senate committees. For the past fortnight, he had spent every spare minute preparing his case. He read every line of the 1,050,000-word testimony of Douglas MacArthur and of the Administration's witnesses. State Department staffers had been working day & night digging out papers, preparing briefings; they even analyzed the questions of individual Senators for their attitude and special interests...
Expert (Who has just come back from a fortnight in Florence): And I was glad to see with my own eyes that this Left-wing Catholicism is definitely on the increase in Tuscany...
Much of the havoc wrought on the attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
...Transshipment and reexport, i.e., the device whereby goods secretly consigned to China are first shipped to a third country and then reshipped to their real destination. Pre-embargo example: A fortnight ago 51 U.S.-made Dodge trucks, first sent to India, finally showed up in Hong Kong, presumably bound for Red China. The British seized them...
...shopping around for a buyer for his American Broadcasting Co., Edward J. Noble has dickered with International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Publisher Walter (Philadelphia Inquirer) Annenberg. Fortnight ago, Noble was dickering with two hot new prospects: the Columbia Broadcasting System and United Paramount Theaters, Inc. His asking price was $28 million. Last week, all the negotiations fell through. Reason: after all the offers, Ed Noble finally decided that ABC was just too good to part with...