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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither the British nor the undauntably optimistic U.S. Negotiator Harold E. Stassen is ready to take the Russians at their harsh word. Do not the Russians often talk uncompromisingly just before giving in? It was decided to believe that the Russians are still seriously negotiating disarmament in London...
...firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also be bad. "A knighthood," observed the London Economist, "is fatal; it often confines a man to running a charity...
...days, no one ever dared arrest a member of the ruling dynasty of Tunisia. But last week Prince Salaheddine, boisterous third son of the Bey of Tunis, languished in a jail charged with attempted murder of a police inspector (he had played once too often his favorite game of driving full speed toward a cop and slamming on the brakes just in time). Salaheddine's arrest was a sign that the end was near. Before the week was out the 76-year-old Bey, whose family has ruled Tunisia for 250 years, was unceremoniously toppled from his throne...
...sound political philosophy, organization or heir apparent. In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country's undisputed ruler-shy and diffident in manner, often indecisive as an administrator, but capable on occasion of moving with stern severity...
...care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale of some church property will bring in $200,000 more. White pupils will pay a modest $200 tuition. Dr. Ingle is a longtime enemy of integration, has often addressed the local Ku Klux Klan, of which his brother is a leader. Says Ingle: "We believe that this integration program is nothing but a Communist plot. It is not right, and it is not scriptural...