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...July 1953, but his loyalty was unswerving. He appeared in, court daily in a well-pressed white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...
...Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes at embassy entrances, swooping suddenly for arrests. Back in Washington, after a nine-day survey .of the situation, California's Republican Representative Patrick Hillings reported bluntly that "there is no question that the leaders of Guatemala are taking orders from Soviet Russia...
...help on China's reconstruction, Rumanian technicians who have come to work in China, Chinese students studying abroad, and more than 50 Korean students on their way home. With the comfortable facilities provided and excellent service by Soviet and Chinese conductors on board the train during the nine-day journey, all the passengers arrived here in the best of spirits...
Manhattan's annual nine-day International Motor Sports Show (92 foreign and U.S. cars) reported sales of nearly $2,000,000, almost double 1953 sales...
Hobbling along on crutches, Bob Taft returned to Washington last week after a nine-day checkup for an ailing hip in a Cincinnati hospital. As he picked up the chores of Senate majority leader, Ohio's senior Senator also picked up where he had left off in his headline pronouncements on foreign policy to the National Conference of Christians & Jews last fortnight (TIME, June 8). Said Taft, in an explanatory public statement: "At no time did I use the words that the U.S. should go it alone in the Far East or anywhere else. I pointed out that...