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...satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate was clapped in prison, the director general would be consulted "whenever possible...
After the stunning shock of the election, Republicans were beginning to stir again. Most of them were still trying to figure out what had gone wrong; some were sure they knew...
...first real trouble arose in Washington. Polk resigned from Newsweek in 1947, charging that since the Astors had taken over the magazine, it had deliberately distorted and biased the news in an effort to stir up anti-Communist and anti-labor feeling among its readers. In a letter to the foreign editor of the magazine, he declared that he could no longer, in clear conscience, continue to work for a publication that, in his viewpoint, presented its readers with "a carefully selected line of propaganda written to achieve a certain desired effect," while pretending to present them with news...
...becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre reported...
...already pretty well watched by civilian weathermen. What interests the Air Force is the area far above-the clear, thin, cold upper atmosphere, where winds of enormous velocity blow around the world. The big job of meteorologists at present is to study these winds and learn how they stir up the atmosphere down below. The Air Force is charting atmospheric conditions up to 20,000 feet for the whole northern hemisphere. Soon it plans to extend the survey up to 40,000 feet...