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...which to discuss the peace. At this point, two U.N. planes, strafing the Kaesong neutral area by mistake, killed a twelve-year-old Korean boy and wounded his two-year-old brother. After an investigation, General Matt Ridgway accepted responsibility for the occurrence, expressed his "heartfelt grief" and promised "prompt and appropriate disciplinary action...
While we cannot look upon our diplomatic relations as a business operation, business principles seem to be in order. Basically, the purpose of any business is to profit . . . Mr. Kennan has a wise message. I believe its conclusions can prompt but one logical question to our policy makers: if we do not think of ourselves, who will? JAMES H. SELWAY, SR. Baltimore...
...paradoxical it is that The Big Party [TIME, Sept. 17] should prompt Barbara Hutton to dress as Mozart at the cost of a sum that would have given to the great composer a lifetime of relief from economic struggle . . . JAMES A. PAULSEN Captain, M.C. San Antonio...
...month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis, for which ACTH and cortisone are useless). ¶ After an executive's son fell into a poison ivy patch, researchers of the National Lead Co. went to work, announced last week a quick cure...
Word reached Hong Kong last week that Father Wang, once hailed by the Communists as the founder of the Independent Catholic Church, had publicly protested the use of his name by the Reds. The Communists' answer was prompt: Wang was taken out and executed...