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...shorts--"Hong Kong" and "More About Me"--complete the show at the Exeter. The former is a well-photographed travelogue, though it has a strong pro-British slant. "More About Me" is a very amusing five-minute affair. "written by George Bernard Shaw, directed by George Bernard Shaw, produced by George Bernard Shaw, and with a cast of George Bernard Shaw played by George Bernard Shaw." It affords Mr. Shaw an opportunity to "insult a wide audience and retain the pleasure of doing so himself, instead of hiring actors...
...Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea and Formosa...
While Austin talked, Wu had sat tense as a coiled spring. In appearance, the Wu at whom the statesmen and television viewers stared for an answer bore no resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part...
...series of hearings which began in Detroit last week may help decide how free a radio station is to broadcast what it pleases. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating charges that a station owner ordered his employees to slant the news to discredit people and groups such as the Roosevelt family and the Roosevelt and Truman administrations...
...either case, the "X" back can be a man in motion; or he can slant across, receive a handoff from the quarterback, and go over the left tackle of Brown's balanced line...