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...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...
...Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters of the Blue Nile with the barefoot village boys, played soldiers in the muddy fields where the fellahin raised their cotton crops, and learned the timeless songs of the water-carriers...
Doctors have found that antibiotics are great germ killers. Why different antibiotics kill different groups of germs they do not know. But, just as a hopeful pool player with no clear shot will try a combination, so will they. If penicillin alone will not work in a particular case, they may try penicillin and aureomycin together. But haphazard combinations of antibiotics may delay, instead of hasten, the patient's cure...
...China, North Korea, Poland, Rumania. Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia had come not to praise the International Red Cross, but to divide it. Peking's delegation took the lead with a gross but expected attack on the U.S. Said Peking's "report" to the Red Cross: ". . . the germ warfare started by the American Government has failed to achieve its purpose...
Four days later, the Red Dean, with his new freedom, repeated his germ warfare charges from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral itself. A handful of Americans in the congregation walked...