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...defense did not have to present its side. Last week, after 5,000,000 words of testimony, Judge Medina dismissed the suit "on the merits and with prejudice" (i.e., the Government cannot reopen the case, although it can appeal Judge Medina's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court). There was no proof whatever, said Medina, of any conspiracy, and therefore "the monopoly charges fall of their own weight." In all, the marathon trial had cost the bankers at least $4,000,000, and some estimates ran as high as $7,500,000. How much it cost taxpayers, nobody knew...
Loosely united again on the most ticklish problem now facing the U.N., the West stepped into the Assembly's big 60-nation meeting to head off a bulldozing Communist campaign to reopen the whole Korean peace conference issue and wheedle Peking into China's U.N. seat. With dispatch, the diplomats elected India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the Assembly's first woman president (see below), agreed to argue about most of the world's dreams and ills, from disarmament to difficulties in landscaping the U.N. skyscraper headquarters in Manhattan...
...AFFAIRS), the delegates were not by any means certain to stand solidly behind the 16 nations' position; many were still wavery on the question of opening the Korean conference table to neutralist-minded countries like India. This week Vishinsky capitalized on the uncertainty with a fresh demand to reopen the whole question. Communist demands for a full-blown "roundtable" peace conference "must be met," he declared. It sounded very much like a threat to torpedo the peace talks unless the Reds get their...
...area within our association . . . 103 mines, employing more than 14,000 miners, closed down completely during 1952 and the first five months of 1953. The greater part of these mines may never reopen . . . We need relief; we must get it if we are to have any future...
...told the subcommittee, he attended a meeting of Boston Communists. Subject of discussion: whether Dr. Markham should be transferred to Boston, or whether she should continue her work in the Cambridge Communist cell. Though both the Markhams have denied the Philbrick testimony, the Harvard Corporation decided last week to "reopen" her case, suspend her with pay until she has "an opportunity to be heard...