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...every sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
...have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...
...self-governing in local affairs, gives it a relationship to the U.S. defined in the official Spanish term as Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State); the official translation is Commonwealth. Congress' laws, notably the draft, apply to Puerto Rico, but because the island has no vote in Con gress it is spared the income...
...Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply did not have anyone else...
With Tiger, the Flames started burning brighter. Haynes jots down phrases that he says come to him in his dreams. His latest, already made into a song: Ya Ess Goony Gress. On stage, the Flames seem to be amusing each other, and don't seem to mind if the audience listens...