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Died. Charles Homer Buford, 74, a railroadman for 43 years and president of the Milwaukee Road from 1947 to 1950, who for nine days in 1946 became czar of all 337 U.S. rail carriers on order of President Truman, who attempted to prevent a strike by seizing the lines; of...
South Korea's caretaker government rescinded martial law one night last week, and the move proved premature. Hundreds of students marched through the streets of Seoul shaking down pedestrians for American cigarettes ("Our politicians live in luxury-foreign cigarettes will burn the fatherland!"), seizing Japanese records from tearooms ("Japanese...
Lost Scalp. In the eyes of even his closest supporters, Kishi was finished. Against him were ranged the Socialists, the Communists, the hot-eyed Zengaku-ren students. Every Tokyo newspaper, except the English-language Japan Times, called for his scalp. In his own faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party, knives were...
Khrushchev's move was also simple tactics. In recent weeks, Western leaders had seemed to take him too much for granted. Official leaks spoke of Khrushchev's "need" to be conciliatory at the summit because of public pressure at home, or because he had staked his prestige in...
The German Gambit. Though he passed off Kir's "kidnaping" with aplomb ("Canon Kir is absent physically, but spiritually he is with us"), Khrushchev was clearly conscious of the depth of Catholic hostility to him. Carefully, he told reporters: "I agree with Christ in most of his teachings. Besides...