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...barn one early evening last week, the Brown Swiss cow was calving for the first time. A small knot of anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
Each day a knot of government men, Red Cross representatives, and journalists gather at the Hong Kong border of Red China to watch for freed prisoners who straggle across from the tiny Chinese border town of Shumchun. By now, the watchers are accustomed to the look left by long imprisonment and hammering interrogation, the attrition of hunger, worry and disease. But they were still shocked by one figure that came from behind the barbed wire. Dressed in a black Chinese gown and tattered brown cap, Roman Catholic Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni looked dazedly out at the free world with...
MORE TRAILER SHIPS are in the offing. For runs between New York and West Coast ports', American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. has asked the Federal Maritime Administration to approve expenditure of $115 million for ten 18-knot, 13,170-ton ships, each with a capacity of 570 trailers...
...Game. In Brisbane, Australia, suing for maintenance, Mrs. Gladys Mary Ross declared that husband Darch Ross tied her left hand to his right hand at night to prevent her from going out with other men, then falsely accused her in the morning of having untied the "love knot," slipped out, returned and retied the knot while he slept...
Named Chief of Naval Operations last week: Rear Admiral Arleigk Albert ("31-Knot"} Burke...