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...long as a year ago, Marshal Tito had indicated to Anthony Eden that partition of the Trieste territory between Yugoslavia and Italy would be acceptable to him. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party forced the House of Commons into scheduling a debate on Trieste. Worried that the Laborites would lean to Tito's side,* the leader of Italy's non-Communist Socialists, Giuseppe Saragat-with Premier Pella's blessing-dispatched a trusted lieutenant to London to explain to Fellow Socialist Attlee how Laborite opposition to Italy's Trieste claims would further damage the deteriorating Socialist position...
...case of lean, black-haired Utah G. Creek, who has lived all of his 38 years near Raymondville, is typical. He sold all 65 of his dairy cattle, got an average of $58 for milk cows that would have brought an average of $250 last year, $37 for heifers that would have sold for $165. He is going to leave his 500-acre farm for a year or so, hopes to get a job in St. Louis to earn money for another try. Said he: "I've got to come back. This is the only life I know...
...them, helping in an advisory or supervisory capacity. We have contracted a projectionist and artist for the series, at substantially reduced rates. They have promised not to work with other groups in this area, but if an organization wishes us to manage a showing for them, we will lean them our facilities...
...Holmes, Jack Raine makes him a retarded Colonel Blimp, rather mildly interested in Holmes' adventures. Similarly, Thomas Gomez is badly miscast as Professor Moriarity. Though unctuously sinister, Gomez looks more like an indigent music teacher than a Napoleon of crime. His great girth and flowing hair hardly suit the "lean, ascetic" arch-criminal of Doyle's imagination...
...first time since Donald Mac-Lean and Guy Burgess of Britain's Foreign Office disappeared more than two years ago, Moscow was provoked to comment on the case. The Soviet propaganda weekly New Times last week denied that Burgess and MacLean had voluntarily gone or had been lured behind the Iron Curtain. "The insolent, provocative nature of these theories," said the magazine, "stinks to high heaven." As for the recent disappearance of Mrs. MacLean and her three children from Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), said New Times, that is "insignificant in itself and without the slightest connection with the Soviet...