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Married. Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille LeSeuer), 47, durable (29 years) cinemactress (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Guitar); and Alfred N. (for Nu) Steele, 54, president of the Pepsi-Cola Company; she for the fourth time (her first and second: Cinemactors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone), he for the third; in Las Vegas...
Soothingly, Burma's U Nu suggested a resolution wrapping up the "five principles" of coexistence with the U.N. charter of human rights. "There is nothing in this proposal which can be opposed by anybody," said Nehru approvingly. But Pakistan's Ali insisted stubbornly: "This conference will not be realistic if it discusses only one side of colonialism and not the other." There, with a pro-Western majority confronting Neutralists Nehru, U Nu and Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, the conference deadlocked. (In the end, the conference agreed to denounce "colonialism in all its manifestations...
...ruler. To the Communists it appears, incorrect though this impression may be, that the U.S. is interfering in a Chinese civil war, by supporting and encouraging a hostile pretender one hundred miles of the Chinese coast. The leaders of Asian neutral opinion--Mr. Nehru of India, Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, and Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon--feel the same way, regarding the present U.S. policy as inconsistent and dangerous...
Another Senator, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, was back at work for TV, interviewing three heads of state-Franco, U Nu of Burma, Nehru-for CBS's See It Now (to the tune of much grumbling by G.O.P. colleagues at work on Capitol Hill). And Oklahoma's Robert Kerr defended both the oil industry and the Democratic record on Meet the Press...
Down the Line. Before Formosa his trip had been little short of historic. The first U.S. Secretary of State to travel in continental Asia, he began by flying from the SEATO conference in Bangkok (TIME, March 7) to neutral Burma (where Premier U Nu received him with considerably more coolness than he had shown to Red China's Chou En-lai eight months before). After a day in Burma, he traded his big Constellation for a lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively...