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But, said the State Department, Chiang conceded little and always too late: the official record depicts him as a leader whose wisdom was corrupted by power, his reason corroded by fear. He balked at the zealous U.S. envoys who urged and arranged negotiations with Communist leaders. As he became ever...
Last week, after two years of hearings and deliberation, the commission planted a bombshell in the laps of its Labor patrons. To the shocked surprise of left-wing politicians and press, its 3&2-page report was a sweeping vindication of the private ownership of Britain's newspapers.
Shortly after midnight, 76 sweltering Puerto Ricans and five crew members jammed into a reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five...
As the car, driven by chunky Bill Holland, roared the usual two extra laps for insurance, its ruddy-faced owner hotfooted it from the pits to the victory cage, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed...
By the time the show had finally ended at 4 a.m., Ella Fitzgerald and the Kai Winding Boptet had livened things up a bit, in between Artie's three concert shows. But Artie wasn't giving up. He planned to soup up the amplifiers so he could really...