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...Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...morning last week a blue sedan, with four detectives aboard, sped down a highway toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...
...discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between .hem, hit the ground, spun around, bounced up again making whistling noises, and sped off over the trees...
...dawn, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, together with Premier Ho Ying-chin and Nanking's garrison commander, sped to the city airport. Soldiers put them aboard waiting planes, hastily jumped in after them and slammed the doors. Behind them, Nanking lay waiting for the conquerors...