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Three Black Sedans. The pawn of these delicate negotiations leads a spare and lonely life inside the drafty old building at Szabadsag Ter 12 in Budapest. Legation officials admit few visitors, and the guest list for the Mass that he celebrates on Sundays is forwarded to Washington for clearance. By all accounts, the cardinal remains chipper, although one U.S. visitor who heard him preach recently says that his mind tends to wander. At night, only he and an American duty officer occupy the legation. Outside, three black sedans of the Hungarian secret police are on around-the-clock alert...
Stiles charges that N.C.A.T.E. is actually a pawn of the National Education Association. Stiles's evidence: 64% of N.C.A.T.E.'s money comes from N.E.A. and 13 of its 19 members represent N.E.A. affiliates. N.C.A.T.E.'s Director W. Earl Armstrong denies N.E.A. domination by saying that "some Methodists are members of the Republican Party, too, but that doesn't mean they control...
India and Red China have exchanged more diplomatic notes than bullets in their territorial wrangle over the disputed Himalayan border between the two countries. Last week China passed India its 76th note in nine months-and clearly indicated that it thought its southern neighbor was the pawn in what Jawaharlal Nehru has described as a "game of military chess" along the ill-defined frontier...
With the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the circulars are being distributed to pawn shops, museums, and private collectors throughout the country...
...since the Examiner was Pop Hearst's first paper, Junior feels a strong sentimental attachment that will not let him yield. In his morning struggle with the Chronicle, the evening Call-Bulletin (the word News will be dropped from the masthead), oddly enough, may prove a useful pawn. Through advertising tie-ins between his morning and evening papers, Hearst may be able to undercut the Chronicle rates. Furthermore, Bill Hearst is well aware that should he ever abandon San Francisco's evening field, he would leave it wide open for the Chronicle-which could then move...