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Prayers in the Mosques. The news reached Teheran just as the Shah, a stout friend of the U.S., was conferring at a Caspian resort with Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with full military honors, Iran's government set the diplomatic wires humming with apologies and promises of an all-out mobilization to find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side...
till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...foreign policy ahead in the cold-war battle against Communism. Over four years, Dulles' instincts in this big battle have been unerring. He resisted arguments from both friends and enemies that the U.S. should coexist happily with Stalin's Russia. He backed to the hilt the stout cold warriors of Europe, e.g., Germany's Konrad Adenauer. He threw international Communism into a flap by releasing the text of Khrushchev's historic oration to the 20th Party Congress denouncing Stalin and his works-a text never published by Moscow. Through the successful extension of U.S. power through...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Art of Murder, a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe. Rex Stout would variously present...
...leader of the November 1955 "preventive revolution" to assure the inauguration of President-elect Kubitschek, General Lott stood out as a stout defender of law and democracy. But after playing his role as guardian of the constitution, he lingered on in the councils of the government. Kubitschek's opponents charged that the President was Lett's puppet...