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Against the fervent and dramatic urgings of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, the annual conference of the British Labor Party last week voted a sensational course: to scrap British nuclear weapons, to eject Britain's U.S. allies from airbases on British soil, to pull out of the NATO alliance and count Britain out of the cold war. The decision cracked the crumbling Labor Party wide open. It doomed the Opposition Laborites-who have failed to win the confidence of British voters in three straight elections-to further years in the political wilderness...
Fifteen years after its beginning, the League of Nations was a scrap of paper, and the world was lurching and reeling towards war. That there is still hope for peace today, fifteen years after the founding of the United Nations, is due in great part to the efforts of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The recent drama in the General Assembly and the failure of the Soviet plan to weaken Hammarskjold's authority illustrate to what extent this extraordinary man has defined his own role in world politics...
...tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack, she wrote down the vivid...
...into radio (as a sounding board to blast the United Rubber Workers) and rocketry (after a son was lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable to take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year...
...said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius was taken down to be melted into wartime scrap in 1942. In her place today stands a lonely lightning...