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...side, the petulance reached a sorry point a fortnight ago when six Newark war veterans sent Prime Minister Clement Attlee a cablegram: "Just in case Mr. Chamberlain didn't leave you his, we are forwarding you an umbrella. It may come in handy in Peking...
...Palizzi is a little freighter on the Black Sea-Mediterranean run. A fortnight ago, two weeks out from the port of Burgas in Communist Bulgaria, the Palizzi tied up at Marseille, began discharging cargo. French customs men let the cargo lie on the dock for three days. Then uniformed officers of the Sūreté Nationale (French security police) stamped up the Palizzi gangway, questioned the captain. Had he found any stowaways aboard this trip? No, said the captain. Come along, said the Sūreté, we're going to open up some of your cargo...
...Largely because of almost unanimous opposition from California's major newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco News and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Daily News and Times, and Fortnight magazine...
...rate would also boost private rates, an increase would also make private loans more expensive and cut them down. Last summer, FRB, by a tricky maneuver, boosted the rate on short-term Government securities (TIME, Sept. 4) and hoped to do the same for long-term bonds. But a fortnight ago, Secretary Snyder, who had lost last summer's battle, announced that he had won the war. He had won the President's approval to keep the long-term rate where it is (2½%), because the U.S. cannot afford the "questionable luxury of tinkering with...
Bailey Everett White, plumber's helper in the town of Hobbs, N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...