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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kibitzers' Drumfire. As Wang and Beam made their moves-stopping after each one to consult their superiors in Peking and Washington-kibitzers round the world kept up a drumfire of advice, exhortation and complaint (see cartoon). Keenly aware that the only bargaining counter which the U.S. had to offer was a change in the status of the offshore islands, Chinese Nationalist leaders regarded the Warsaw talks with undisguised alarm and despondency. In Taipei Nationalist Premier Chen Cheng implicitly warned the U.S. that his country would not be a party to any such bargain. Said Chen: "We will defend Quemoy...
...such top local people as Dr. Ralph Cherry, dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education, and Elementary School Principal D. Mott Robertson, the 200 declared themselves above the integration debate, asked Almond to restore school control to the community. This week the committee hoped to round up 1,000 parents for a public meeting...
Thus ended the latest round of hearings on the Teamsters, which added up to the greatest blot on the record of U.S. organized labor. As for Slippery Jim, he announced that he will call a special Teamster election for February (at a cost of $1,500,000) to get out from under the three monitors appointed by a Federal District Court last January to see to it that Jimmy cleans up his union. At week's end two of the three monitors asked the court to cancel plans for the election because Hoffa has not even begun to comply...
...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...