Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Peking and Pyongyang radios reached new heights of invective ("cunning," "deceitful," "arrogant," "blackmail" and "lunacy"), the Communists last week broke off the Kaesong truce talks. It was the first time they had done so, although Matt Ridgway had done it twice...
...than facing across table in stiff two-sided array. There would be no stenographers' reports, no press briefings on the progress of the subcommittee, and a bare minimum of newsmen in Kaesong. There would be every reason to get down to business, and no further need for what Matt Ridgway called "parroting of elaborate and illogical propaganda slogans...
...Communists had already admitted the illegal presence of their armed soldiers in Kaesong. Matt Ridgway insisted that he would resume the talks only if the Reds clearly understood that further violations would end the truce talks automatically. After digesting this for 52 hours, the Reds sent another message. The key paragraph: "It is inconceivable that there will be any further failure on our part to comply . . . unless you should deliberately fabricate incidents as an excuse to terminate the armistice negotiations." U.N. strategists ignored the insults, accepted the "inconceivable" assurance...
...tennis singles stayed at a high competitive pitch this week as top-seeded John Rauh eked out a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 conquest over Kenneth "Tug" Wilson, and then beat Matt Reynolds 6-2, 6-2, to move into the quarter finals...
That was the last the law saw of Matt Jones. One night last week, railroad workmen near Lexington, Mo., 50 miles east of Kansas City, found Matt's body bobbing on the swollen Missouri River, a 9-lb. tire chain wrapped tightly around his ankles and threaded through a 45-lb. concrete building block. Al Osborne's lawyer, on hearing the news, averred that Jones's death was "detrimental to my client." But the county prosecutor didn't seem to think so. Without Matt's testimony, the three remaining charges against Al Osborne would probably...