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...with expression of mock horror, then grinned and said: "No, I just think that Congress, when it wants to, can do an awful lot in a very short time, and I am hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered a question about his surprise proclamation of martial law during last month's civil-defense test. He had taken no advance briefing on the test problems he was to face-"because . . . decisions should be made in the proper atmosphere of urgency ... I was suddenly told that 53 of the major cities of the U.S. had either been...
...voting in Chinese elections or serving in the armed forces. From authorities in Hong Kong they got one-way travel permits and third-class tickets aboard the President Cleveland, bound for San Francisco. When the 21 chose Communism, Defense Secretary Wilson had ordered them dishonorably discharged without court-martial, an unprecedented and possibly illegal move that has yet to be tested in court. Under truce-agreement guarantees, they can never be prosecuted for their choice. But they may have to stand trial for crimes in prison, along with hundreds of other returned "progressive...
...massed band, from whose front line of trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...
...butcher was accused of bringing cattle into the city without a permit, his lawyer asked the court: "Is there, legally speaking, such a place as Karachi?" The government, red-faced, asked a postponement. A navy lieutenant, charged with drunkenness, boldly asked his accusers"! "On whose authority is this court-martial held? Is there, legally speaking, a commander in chief?" The court-martial was promptly adjourned...
...Tonight earned Producer Paul Gregory his usual fine reviews and should prove-like Gregory's Don Juan in Hell and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial-another big Broadway winner. There will be dissenters, however. Sceneryless and recital-like, 3 for Tonight yet aims at effects as soberly startling as a lady pallbearer. It is also a kind of variety show that not too wisely shrugs at variety: beyond Master of Ceremonies Hiram Sherman, there are only the dance team...