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When the first squall caused by the Labor pamphlet had quieted down, it became evident that the British government was still far from a flat stand against one of the world's best hopes. British officials last week cagily lifted a few inches of heavy wrapping from something called the Plowden Plan. Drafted by Treasury's Chairman of the Economic Planning Board Sir Edwin Plowden, it offered as its main feature a coal-steel pool without the sweeping powers which Schuman had called for. It held out some strictly limited hope that a practical compromise between the British...
Next day, a squall broke over the head of Judge Samuel H. Kaufman. California's Representative Richard M. Nixon demanded an investigation "to determine his fitness to serve on the bench." Cried Nixon: "His prejudice for the defense and against the prosecution was so obvious and apparent that the jury's 8-to-4 vote for conviction frankly came as a surprise to me." Illinois' Freshman Congressman Harold Velde, an ex-FBI agent, joined in: he cited six specific examples* of Judge Kaufman's actions which he said "bordered on misconduct." Nixon thought the Un-American...
...which had never been seen before. Mounted in the center of a spacious reflecting pool was the latest work of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, a magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot to keep him from crashing...
...scheduled appearance of another one of the 11 Communist leaders produced another squall at Brooklyn College, which has not yet ended...
...Fight Has Just Begun. Italy, invited to join the new Atlantic union, bucked through the week's most savage and stinging easterly squall. For 52 filibustering hours in a turbulent Chamber of Deputies, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists tried to block Premier Alcide de Gas-peri's request for permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads...