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...edition includes a section of articles on regional opportunities in the United States and in Latin America and Canada. Also in the magazine is a group of special articles, ranging from an analysis of the college graduate's earning power by Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, to a plea for more technological personnel by M.I.T. President James R. Killian...
Despite a sixth order from the U.N. General Assembly and a personal appeal from the President of the U.S., Israel dug in on the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba, flatly and firmly refusing to get out. To the U.N. and to Dwight Eisenhower's plea for "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," Israel last week answered pointedly that "no guarantees have been obtained yet for definite stoppage of Egypt's belligerence and sea blockade of Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel...
...Sailors Union of the Pacific. They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened his eye. Sally sallied into the men's room, got her ankles booted for her solicitude. Now they were together again for the trial of the two sailors, whose plea was not guilty. Sally stuck by her original contention: "We sure as hell didn't start...
...might have been expected, the press ignored the palace plea to respect Charles's privacy. To get rid of the mob on the second day, Headmaster H. S. Townsend had to announce that the famous New Boy would not show up. But cameramen had already given the delighted nation a glimpse of the future King of England scuffling about the playing field just like any other boy his age. It was, exulted the London Daily Mail, further evidence "of the growing democratization (horrid, inescapable word!) of the throne...
...study the nation's overall financial system (TIME, Jan. 21) ran into a strictly partisan ambush in Congress last week. By a vote of 16 Democrats to twelve Republicans, the House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going to be an investigation, Congress ought...