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...Mutton Stew. On their side, the Russians had an excellent propaganda opportunity in the issue of the Italian colonies in Africa-Libya, Eritrea, Somaliland. The 1947 peace treaty with Italy provided that unless the Big Four reached agreement by Sept. 15, 1948, the matter would be turned over to the U.N. Assembly. Some weeks ago Moscow startled the Western powers with a proposal to have one last fling at the colonies before the deadline. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall agreed to negotiate but refused to attend in person. So last week in Paris the Big Four held a three...
Vishinsky at once attacked the conference's authority to deal with the problem at hand. "In order to make mutton stew," he stormed, "you must have mutton. In order to have a Foreign Ministers' conference, you must have Foreign Ministers." To this France's Robert Schuman, the only actual Foreign Minister in attendance, sharply retorted: "If you don't have powers to negotiate, why did you come here...
...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...
What else does television offer? Mostly a routine stew of quiz shows, man-in-the-street interviews, cooking lessons galore, charades, fashion shows, vaudeville turns, illustrated weather forecasts, and pickups of radio broadcasts (beginning June 1 We the People will be seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh...
...sedan into the garage behind his neat white six-room house at 9:30 p.m. His wife turned on the back porch light; he walked into the kitchen, took off his coat, asked about their 5½ year-old daughter Linda, and sat down to some warmed-up beef stew...