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...Made it plain that he just wouldn't work hard to enforce the Kem amendment, which bans economic aid to countries shipping goods of war to Russia or her satellites. The Administration (which has no quarrel with the purpose of the legislation) argues that it is so unrealistically drawn that the friendliest, countries could not qualify for aid under its terms, and that if it were enforced, it would wreck the very nations on which the U.S. depends for military assistance. If the Kem amendment were literally applied, only Tito's Yugoslavia among European nations would be eligible...
...story picks up Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, follows him to America and on his triumphant return to Spain. But another voyage brings disillusionment; his crewmen abuse the confidence of the Indians and quarrel over their loot. Columbus himself is finally brought back to Spain in chains-to die with the belated realization that justice and reason are more precious than silver and gold. Best things in Egk's score: a clear song line, dramatic choruses and an effective handling of Spanish and Indian folk tunes...
Ambassador Peurifoy, in the U.S. on a visit, hastily flew back to Athens, tried again to patch up the quarrel between the country's two foremost men. There was danger that, without Papagos, the U.S.-trained-and-equipped Greek army-an important weapon in the West's defenses against Red aggression-might fall apart...
Growled broad-shouldered Jesus Salas Barrazas, who had never forgotten the pistol-whipping that Villa had once given him in a quarrel over a woman: "I would -for 50,000 pesos." Chavez did not have that much cash, but he mused that "collecting money from Villa's enemies to have him killed would be the easiest thing in the world." Within a month a fund of 100,000 pesos was subscribed...
Five Shots to Go. By last week, police thought they knew who the killer was. They recalled an incident that had occurred four days before Whitsunday in a small native village-a quarrel between a corporal in the native auxiliary troops and an ex-trooper named Amou N'Talit Tademalit, a Berber tribesman who, some said, was in love with the corporal's wife. Whatever the cause, the corporal had decided to show his contempt for Amou by treating him like a servant. Riding proudly up to his house that day, he had flung his reins...