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Signs of Peace? When he takes over his new job next fortnight, Cy Ching will have the chance to give that formula its most searching test. In labor's determined campaign to bypass or discredit the Taft-Hartley Act,* there were only faint signs of peace last week...
...fortnight ago began his 16th year...
...abuse of power, abuse of the veto . . . we are not going to let the thing go by default. . . ." Everybody in U.N., including the Russians, knew that. They had known it since U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall rushed to Washington from the Salt Lake City Governors' Conference a fortnight ago upon reports that an "international brigade" was forming north of Greece...
Russia had placed an iron mop in the hands of Ana Pauker, its No. 1 Rumanian Communist, and Ana was busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
...line, but not everybody is sure that he can handle the right-wing Herrerista opposition as skillfully as the old man could. Like most Uruguayans he is friendly to the U.S., though last week he expressed reservations about the U.S. hemisphere arms plan. On a trip to Argentina last fortnight he paid his first visit to Perón. He thought he should meet the man, he explained, whose wife was soon going to pay an important visit to Uruguay...