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...first man ever to take off his shoe and use it for a gavel at the U.N. last week gathered 12,000 of the faithful in the Lenin Sports Palace in Moscow and gave his candid opinion of the international body. "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! They get much money and spent much time in restaurants with their wives. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting. One important head of a delegation...
...Gavel. When U.S. Delegate Francis O. Wilcox brought up the same unpleasant item of Communist subject nations, Rumania's Mezincescu, clearly feeling he had not been noisy or rude enough before, interrupted with a frenzied, podium-pounding display. He shouted that Assembly President Frederick Boland was partial toward "supporters of the colonialists," and Khrushchev again took off his shoe and thumped his desk with it. To restore order, President Boland pounded his gavel until it broke. "Because of the scene you have just witnessed," Boland coldly told the delegates, "I think the Assembly had better adjourn...
...union votes at a time, can always outvote the so-called constituency parties, which represent the actual British voter. In union halls and smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving...
Once More the Gavel. This was the best break Khrushchev had got all week. A meeting with Dwight Eisenhower, without any Khrushchev concessions or apologies in advance, would be a Soviet diplomatic victory. Apparently encouraged, Khrushchev decided to thunder some more. He turned up at the U.N., got the floor, seizing on a Nepalese motion calling for full Assembly debate on the question of Red China's admission...
Republicans were not going to let the Democrats have all the initiative. The President, between his vacation rounds at Newport, prepared a message to be read at the first gavel bang, before Democrats had a chance to do their own politicking. "There is much important work still pending that cannot await the selection and assembly of a new Congress and a new Administration," said Ike. Of 27 measures that he had requested before Congress adjourned for the conventions, he pointed out, only six had been acted upon. He called for an aid-to-education bill, medical aid for the aged...