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...detected a couple of dangerous loopholes. The resolution said nothing about the shipment of foreign arms and equipment into the Congo, and did not give Hammarskjold's men the right to intercept such contraband. This was, after all, the key to peace. But when the U.S. proposed amendments to close these loopholes, some of the resolution's backers were strangely reluctant to agree; one of them was Nasser's U.A.R., which had been trafficking in arms for Gizenga for some weeks and perhaps wanted to continue doing...
...TOOLS FOR REDS were okayed by Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. He authorized shipment of $1,500,000 worth of machine tools, presumably for military use, that had been first approved by the Eisenhower Administration but held up by Defense Department objections. Hodges' reason: Soviets could easily buy them in Europe, so U.S. makers might as well profit...
Hamilton billed the deal as the biggest sale since World War II. It pushes Communist China from nothing to third among Canada's grain customers (behind Britain and Japan), and will probably keep West Coast handlers busy until fall clearing the shipment, which will take upward of 100 ships to move...
...they rushed to finish a 38,000-lb. order of jelly for shipment to Chicago last week, the workers in the preserves factory outside Spencer, Mass, would have made any boss happy. They worked relentlessly, spoke not a word, took no coffee or cigarette breaks, smiled constantly. Occasionally, they glanced up at a sign that spurred them on even more: IT is GOOD FOR us TO BE HERE. The contented workers were the Trappist monks of St. Joseph's Abbey, and their thriving jelly business (1,230,000 jars a year) is typical of a fascinating-and rapidly growing...
...annual shipment of fortune cookies has arrived, slightly damaged, from Sinkiang Province, and the seers of Plympton Street have donned their sacred crimson robes to scan the crumbs for omens for the coming year. Meddling by Customs officials made some of the scraps nearly unreadable, but the CRIME has been able to put together the following somewhat sketchy prognosis...