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Monstrous Fireball. As the press showing and briefing ended, it was clear that no one expected the week-long "embargo" to hold. Wire servicemen, moviemen and network reporters rushed the film back to their offices as if their deadlines were minutes away instead of a week. They started still pictures and stories moving over the wires and shipped the movies out by the first available planes. At the New York Times, Washington Bureau Chief James Reston advised his home office to be ready for the story to break at any moment...
...President's week involved a lot more than jonquils and birthdays. During the week he signed 24 bills, vetoed two others. He said he suspected that the fight between Joe McCarthy and the Army had hurt the morale of a lot of servicemen...
Though last July's armistice silenced the guns, a mysterious oriental killer has gone on taking the lives of U.S. servicemen in Korea. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, or Manchurian fever (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), has killed 17 G.I.s since the fighting ended, and last week 82 were still in the Army's special hospital at Seoul in a long battle to win back their health and strength...
Although Jim Crow still applies in most Southern communities, even there the breakthrough is felt. Pentagon files tell of Southern restaurants being opened to Negro soldiers in uniform, and of white Southern families inviting Negro servicemen home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville...
...direction of his car or taxi. George's chief mission was to spy on U.S. and Japanese forces. George cultivated a wide acquaintance among Tokyo's swarming streetwalkers, who have a wide acquaintance among G.I.s. His favorite haunt was The Forbidden City, a Chinese restaurant popular with servicemen. He was, U.S. Intelligence agents well knew, a lieutenant colonel in Beria...