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...first exception to the Foreign Service Act of 1946. Both houses voted unanimously to keep L'Heureux in Washington for at least another year. Unknowingly, they also gave him a vacation. Last week, because Speaker Sam Rayburn had not signed the bill before the House's summer recess, L'Heureux was at home in Chevy Chase, improving his vacation hours by painting his ten-room house. This week, the ex-elevator boy will be back protecting what Congress described as "the best interests of national security...
...third week of truce talks at Kaesong started in deadlock. The Communists had demanded, and the U.N. flatly refused, to add the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea to the agenda of the cease-fire talks. After a three-day recess, the Communists backed down again (their first backdown: when they agreed to neutralize Kaesong), settled for a face-saving formula allowing them to reopen the foreign troops issue later...
During a noon recess in the Kaesong peace talks last week, a group of United Nations correspondents got a surprise as two Russian jeeps came screeching up. Out jumped two Westerners in slacks and white shirts, looking as if they had just come from an afternoon of punting on the Thames. One was 41-year-old Alan Winnington, British correspondent for the Communist London Daily Worker, who has been denounced in Parliament as a traitor (TIME, May 21); the other was Australian Wilfred Burchett, 39, a reporter for Paris' Communist daily, Ce Soir. They are the only Western newsmen...
...beat the band . . . You are proving the defense with every one of these papers that you put in," Judge Medina said. "That is the funny part of it." But Medina didn't think the case funny enough to keep him amused all summer. Last week he called a recess, adjourned the case until...
...have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would say, with that mind of yours. Keeping everything in it is a remarkable accomplishment." Some seemed bedazzled by the intricacy of his argument. Maine's Owen Brewster asked for a recess to give him more time to prepare, pleading: "I am somewhat overawed with the responsibility of even questioning the Secretary [with his] very great intelligence and competence in his field...