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...April. For 2½ hours his voice boomed confidently through the House of Commons as he explained just how far Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...
...Chinese request, and alleged that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians despairingly saw her extend her grip on Azerbaijan; the Turks were once again the object of a Moscow war of nerves...
...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...
Last week, on his home track at Malmö, the gangling Swede bounced back to stardom. With arch-rival Arne Andersson as opposition and a heat wave to loosen his muscles, Hägg ran on the ragged edge of the magic four-minute mile. His 4:01.4 was world record time (1.2 seconds better than Andersson's mark made two years ago over the faster Stockholm track...
Collective Power. The court ruled that an A.P. member must no longer be allowed to keep out a competitor (although the A.P. membership as a whole will still be able to reject applicants). It also ordered the A.P. to loosen its airtight news-trading agreement with the Canadian Press. In doing so, the court majority paid its disrespects to the A.P.'s familiar plea that freedom of the press was at issue: "Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. ... [A publisher has no right to] a peculiar...