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Four Lords. The fight over Odhams raised a huge ruckus-to the point where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan finally stepped in and ordered the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the entire British press situation. It seemed high time. The take-over of Odhams by either King or Thomson would accelerate a postwar trend toward merger and monopoly, sped by rising labor and production costs and serious advertising losses to television, that has placed control of more than half Britain's newspaper circulation in the hands of four press lords. Besides King and Thomson, the giants...
Despite the critics, the doubters, and everyone's legitimate forebodings, Hammarskjold continued to push ahead from one limited, carefully chosen diplomatic objective to the next. At week's end, without ruckus, members of his Swedish bodyguard symbolically took over from the Belgians the guard duty at Elisabethville airfield, where they first put down. Belgian commanders in Katanga agreed to start pulling their 7,000 troops back to a single base as more U.N. forces flew in this week. The Congo may remain just one jump ahead of chaos for some time to come, but Dag Hammarskjold had established...
...grim mission of conscience. He strode across the Nashville campus and handed Chancellor Harvie Branscomb a terse letter of resignation. By week's end ten other divinity-school faculty members followed Nelson, 17 students quit, and three recent graduates returned their diplomas. It was the worst ruckus in Vanderbilt's 87-year history...
...When the ruckus broke over the Paris-Presse story, Stevenson at first denied that he had ever seen Boulay. "This report of an alleged interview is grotesque; I have given no interviews to any Paris paper in the past year." Then Stevenson acknowledged that he had entertained Boulay at Libertyville, but insisted that he was grossly misquoted. "The views Mr. Boulay attributed to me," he said, "had nothing to do with my opinions and do not in any way correspond with my opinions today. The most charitable explanation of such irresponsibility, of such presumption and such a lack of courtesy...
...Paris with his invalid wife, but got there only as K. was about to depart at Orly Airport. Eaton told K. the story of George Washington, the cherry tree and telling no lies. Later, Eaton was asked if he regarded Dwight Eisenhower as a liar in the spy plane ruckus. "No," replied Canadian-born Millionaire Eaton, "but we pulled some serious fibs. We need to return to the principles of George Washington." His helpful history lesson earned Eaton a Khrushchev promise: "When Communism has triumphed in the whole world, I'll say a word in your favor...