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...Gisella Kapus, the gallant Hungarian refugee who lost her left foot in a land-mine explosion as she was escaping through the Iron Curtain (TIME, Aug. 9). stopped over in Washington with her family to meet the President, on her way to a new home in Texas. "I am delighted to welcome you to this country," Ike told Mrs. Kapus. "I hope you grow to love this country, and I hope you like Texas particularly, because I was born there." He was especially pleased to learn that the Kapus family had been helped by private organizations in its flight...
...Gallant Rebel. Next day from Churchill's own side, Captain Charles Waterhouse rose to speak for the Tory rebels. An ex-Guardsman who is seldom heard on the floor of the House, he was stern and resolved. "We speak in sorrow," he said. "In this piece of paper we have got all that is left of 80 years of British endeavor, thought and forethought." He complained of U.S. pressure: "For many years we have had a little American lamb bleating in Cairo, not helping and if anything hindering in most things. Well...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...
...cease-fire agreements for Laos and Viet Nam were signed by second-tier officials in a small room off the main council chamber in the Palais des Nations. The ceremony, watched only by a handful of photographers and minor officials, took just 7½ minutes. Ten hours later, the gallant Cambodians signed the revised agreement that may some day make the difference between freedom and Communist slavery for them and for Laos...
...gallant Vietnamese still tried to inspire defiance. Plump little Dr. Hoang Co Binh, head of the new Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam, sent loudspeaker cars around the city "to improve the morale of the people" and he pledged himself to raise three new Vietnamese battalions; he also ordered all civil servants to sing the National Anthem every day. "The Viet Minh are not as strong as we have pretended they are," he told the Vietnamese who would listen...