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...Athens, Easter Sunday's Feast of the Resurrection was far from festive. Martial law had been proclaimed, and while church bells pealed Athenians bandied the latest rumor: next on the party list was Vice Premier Constantin Tsaldaris...
Decision. As the gunfire died away and Bogotá lay desolate, looted, gutted and under martial law, heads of conference delegations met to decide whether to stay in Bogotá or to go home. In Santiago, the Chilean government declared that the conference must go on. Not all Latin-American countries were so sure. Finally the delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There...
...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz had a lot to remember. In World War I he had shot down three planes. In 1926, he had been a defense witness at Billy Mitchell's court-martial. In 1929, a major, he had commanded the Question Mark, which established the feasibility of refueling planes in mid-air-and drew some badly needed attention to a badly neglected Air Corps...
...Banquo's ghost. As Critic A. C. Bradley once pointed out, the fourth act of most very great Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear) tends to slump. Last week's production slumps less than the play, and proceeds to a mighty laying-on of Macduff and a martial conclusion. Perhaps best of all, the new production catches an atmosphere of menace and an air of Scotland...
...Congress made minor amends for the major court-martial of the late General William ("Billy") Mitchell. Twenty-two years after the pioneer plugger of air power resigned from the Army, a special posthumous medal was presented to son William...