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...table conference would: 1) give the Reds a chance to prolong indefinitely the negotiation of a specific settlement, and 2) tie the question of Korean settlement to the demand of Red China for a seat in the U.N. The U.S. is not opposed to a round-table conference per se, but objects to an Asia-wide conference until the Chinese Communists have proved their intentions on the specifics of Korea...
...missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram was 19 when he first met Isolde. Juliet was 1'ess than 14 when Romeo made love to her. All of these youths, the great lovers of history, would be looked upon as immature adolescents and identified as juvenile...
...Difficult questions arise when a witness is asked if he now is or ever has been a member of the Communist party. The Internal Security Act of 1950 provides 'Neither the holding of office nor membership in any Communist organization by any person shall constitute per se a violation of...this section or of any other criminal statute.' Whether this refers only to federal statutes or was intended to include state statutes as well is not clear, but the section tends to militate against immunity when the question is asked with reference to a federal offense. Certainly the fact that...
...strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...
...adventure began when three husky bucks leaped at him from the brush beside the trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...