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...Angeles, though he had stayed up till 2 a.m. working on forthcoming speeches, Stevenson had perhaps the most successful day of his trip. Speaking to an audience of business and professional men at the Biltmore Hotel, he made an effective plea for greater and more intelligent popular participation in government. Once again he denounced legislative pandering to special interests, terming it closely akin to corruption. "Sound government," said Stevenson, "ends when the leaders of special groups call the tune, whether they represent capital, labor or farmers, veterans, pensioners or anyone else...
...follow the example of Kemal Ataturk and outlaw the tarboosh (fez in Turkey) as a symbol of the Old Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
...plea that Knights and their fellow Americans give a "close and careful scrutiny" to the operations of UNESCO (see below). Reason: UNESCO, "in some of its expressed views, advances theories which would support birth control as a truly scientific solution of problems of population and human betterment...
Last week Harry Truman, who had already rejected a similar plea on behalf of U.S. garlic growers (TIME, Aug. 4), took a hammer to the commission's argument and smashed it to smithereens. Wrote the President, in turning down the commission's recommendation: "The weight of evidence does not support the claim that our domestic watch industry has been seriously injured, or that there is a threat of serious injury . . . [Domestic] production of jewelled watches had nearly doubled in 1951, as compared with the annual average for the period 1936-40." With the U.S. now selling nearly twice...
...side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days later, Naguib rejected his plea to reconvene Parliament, which the Wafd dominates. Had Naguib given in to Nahas, it would have been a sign that he was only half interested in fighting corruption...