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...bones of a single American. Use the surrender of the islands to secure the release of servicemen and civilians illegally held prisoners of the Chinese Communists." Among those who said no: General Claire Chennault, General James Van Fleet, Rear Admiral Robert Theobald, Lieut. General George Stratemeyer, Admiral Frederick Sherman, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld. Two who were noncommittal: Admiral William Halsey, General Mark Clark. Admiral Yarnell died, at 83, last year...
After serving a three-month stretch this year for contempt of a federal court, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, 70, onetime largesse-dripping crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, was to have stood trial for dodging $791,745 in federal income taxes during 1952-57. But last week three court-appointed psychiatrists reported their unanimous diagnosis: Goldfine suffers from a manic-depressive psychosis, has strong suicidal tendencies. The court called off the trial, ordered Goldfine committed to a hospital for treatment. In a parallel case, onetime Federal
Kentucky. In a dark and bloody ground of national political contention, Kentuckians are paying much more attention to the presidential race than to their own drab Senate campaign between Incumbent John Sherman Cooper and former Governor Keen Johnson. Able Republican Cooper, onetime U.S. Ambassador to India, is probably more liberal than his challenger. Johnson, a prominent businessman (vice president of Reynolds Metals), is locally famed for his frugality: as Governor (1939-43), he ran a tight treasury, spent less than the legislature allotted, liquidated the state debt and ran up a surplus of $10 million. Cooper is ahead...
...side of the bridge crouched seven German teen-agers with only two weeks of military training. On the other side was a combat patrol of battle-hardened G.I.s supported by three Sherman tanks, artillery and planes. The result? Two U.S. tanks destroyed, a scatter of U.S. dead in the street and, finally, a crestfallen U.S. withdrawal to allow planes and artillery to soften up the remaining schoolboy defenders...
...Paris in 1951 and tried to persuade his friend (they first met in the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941) to run for the G.O.P. nomination. After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus a neglect of his home ground, caused him that same year to lose his Senate seat to a persuasive upstart named Jack Kennedy. Eisenhower appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (says Lodge: "I have reason to be grateful to Kennedy. It's because...