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...Utter Defeat." The Red line was laid down this week by the loudest organ of Peking propaganda, the People's Daily: "Heavy blows dealt by the Korean people's army and Chinese volunteers have put the enemy in such dilemma that an armistice now becomes possible." The Red version of what happened in Korea is simple: The South Koreans started the war a year ago with an attack on North Korea. The North Koreans quickly counterattacked, whereupon "American imperialists," coming to the aid of their "Syngman Rhee puppets," drove into North Korea. At that point Chinese "volunteers" entered...
Then Bill Oatis, broken by months of questioning, made his final speech. "I am sorry I went in for espionage in this country," he said. "I did it only because I listened to the wrong kind of orders from abroad ... I am sorry for all this. Your security organ caught me and now you know all about me." The Czech court sentenced him to ten years in prison, with a chance of five years off for "good behavior." His three assistants got 16, 18 and 20-year sentences...
...production is finished with all sorts of fine trimmings, not the least of which are Robert Fletcher's costumes and Robert O'Hearn's settings. Light organ and piano music, strictly a Brattle accouterment, provide a tasteful background...
...dusty desert to the east of the Organ Mountains is sown with nonhuman eyes: radars, telescopic cameras, instruments to measure the missile's enormous speed. Housed in small concrete buildings or perched on platforms, they cover the whole range, which is roughly 40 miles wide and 100 miles long. Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space...
...Fremstad, eightyish, old-time Wagnerian soprano, one of the last of the hefty, histrionic divas of the Metropolitan Opera's early-century "Golden Age"; in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. In Minnesota, where her father emigrated from Norway and set up as a Methodist lay preacher, she played the organ at his revival meetings, worked her way to Manhattan stardom, made a million, at her farewell appearance in 1914 (as Elsa in Lohengrin) took 40 curtain calls...