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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon before he flew to Europe, President Eisenhower thoughtfully drew a State Department policy paper out of the ''urgent study" pile on his desk. Its contents: a report on the Communist guerrilla bands swarming antlike out of Red China's puppet state of North Viet Nam into the Utah-sized nation of Laos (see FOREIGN NEWS). This "very dangerous" situation signaled the revival of full-scale guerrilla warfare in Indo-China for the first time since Red China agreed at Geneva in 1954 to stop it. The President, approving State's recommendations, cranked up machinery...
...seven-day-a-week schedule earns her about 175,000 rupees a year ($37,000), a fabulous income for an Indian working woman. She could probably make more, but she handles her own finances, a foredoomed undertaking considering the uncertain economics of the Indian cinema. Rubber paychecks pile up, and she is never quite sure who owes her what. "It is embarrassing to ask for money," she says. Even so, she makes enough to maintain a Bombay apartment and a summer home in the hills. She has a Chrysler, a Chevrolet, five long-haired Pomeranians, and a constant army...
...desperation, Halleck persuaded the President to go on television with an eloquent and perfectly timed appeal for strong labor reform. That reversed the trend: last week, on the eve of the great debate, the House got its biggest pile of mail since Harry Truman sacked General MacArthur...
...Harry Jay Mosser is a short, rumpled, publicity-shy Texan who has quietly piled up a fortune of $100 million by sniffing out oil on land that no one else wanted. This week he was preparing to pile up another fortune, based this time on his nose for natural gas. His Associated Oil & Gas Co. announced that it has proved up perhaps the largest untapped gas field in gas-rich South Texas. Estimated reserves: a trillion cubic feet. But that was only Harry Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Part four of The Sand Pile is a proper companion for the preceding program: a look at the religious attitudes of contemporary youth. Special guest: The Rev. William Hamilton...