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...General Assembly reconvened at windswept Flushing Meadow last week, most of the corridor talk among delegates centered around one topic: the Atlantic Treaty. What worried U.N.ers most was whether it had weakened U.N. Some thought so. The Russians, whose press was hoarsely denouncing the pact as a threat to peace, were expected to raise a major row about it in the Assembly. Actually, as Australian Assembly President Herbert ("Doc") Evatt pointed out, the charter provides for regional defense pacts within U.N.'s general framework. The Atlantic pact presented the Russians with the fact of Western unity. It was hard...
...away; there was a long procession of ants running toward an anthill; spiders spun webs; a butterfly opened and closed its wings; the clover, the daisies, the devil's-paint-brush, the sorrel and timothy nodded above her and gave her a peculiar sense of being, herself, a meadow full of grass and flowers and little flying, crawling, humming creatures...
...shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...
...week it became apparent that the Assembly could not cover its overloaded agenda before Christmas, although lights burned late in the Palais de Chaillot (see cut). So it was agreed that this would be Session Three, Part One, and that Part Two would convene on April i at Flushing Meadow. Business carried over to April will include the Italian colonies, Franco Spain, the proposed U.N. guard force, and the treatment of Indians in South Africa...
...terraced grain fields. Said Farmer L. O. Page, who goes in for strip cropping: ''Every time it rained, I used to lie awake nights wondering what part of the farm would be washed away in the morning. These nights I sleep like a kitten. I know those meadow strips will catch and hold the water...