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...House Without Utility. This might all be understandable, or at least explainable. A little harder to understand was how the variation between $18 billion and $14.3 billion could make so much difference-the difference, perhaps, between the prompt nabbing of an international felon in Mr. Truman's police action and what was actually happening. The money finally budgeted for national defense was no niggling sum; it was one-third of the national budget...
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb and France's Jean Chauvel introduced a joint Anglo-French resolution that welcomed "the prompt and vigorous support" which the world had given U.N.'s earlier Korea actions; they urged "a unified command under the United States," and asked the U.S. "to designate the commander of such forces...
...into the best cabin courts by midafternoon. Thousands of Westerners and Southwesterners were reinstituting an old prewar custom-going to Detroit to pick up a new car and using the savings in freight charges to finance their trip. Almost every automobile company was cooperating enthusiastically; some not only guaranteed prompt delivery, but free showers, free food and free beds to those waiting for cars...
...Said the Statesman: "We hear [that] 75% of the [East Bengal] population have .. . ceased to take fish for fear of being poisoned and are meanwhile doing poojah [prayers] to their gods to see if haply this scourge may be removed. We should be more pleased to hear that some prompt steps had been taken to remedy the disaster...
Last week the East Bengal government took prompt steps to deny the charges: "Incorrect reports ... no such complaint . . ." In their anger, the Pakistani officials had failed to notice that the Statesman's fish story appeared in the column, "Seventy-Five Years Ago Today...