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...planes ordered for his TWA. Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA stock, would have had little trouble raising the money if he had been willing to relinquish his whimful one-man control of the airline. Long accustomed to dictating his own terms, Hughes refused. Wary bankers were equally stubborn. Last week, with time running...
Test for the Right. Last week the SEATO powers led by the U.S. were trying to end this three-way war by bringing pressure to reconcile Premier Souvanna and General Phoumi. Their argument: the only side winning in the fight is the Communist Pathet Lao. At first Phoumi proved stubborn, ignoring four telegrams from the King asking him to meet with the Premier's military representatives at the royal palace in Luangprabang. But the new month was approaching, bringing pay day for his troops, and U.S. aid, which normally covers the army's wages, goes only...
...Jacksonville, Governor LeRoy Collins had alerted the National Guard, and the city's 400-man police force was enforcing an uneasy truce. N.A.A.C.P. agents, in town to call off further sit-ins and to try to keep Negro gangs under control, blamed the situation on Jacksonville's stubborn segregation. Despite his police chief's report that "all the fellows we arrested were local boys," Mayor Burns insisted that the trouble had been started by whites from out of town. Whoever was right, the promise of more trouble remained...
...execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a picket line. The facts make any judgment questionable, but to John, of course, Krasnitz is simply a murderer, and to Herta he is a martyr of the class war. As stubborn husband and angry wife sit before the television set waiting for Krasnitz to walk his last mile, the author examines his characters in two long microscopic flashbacks that take up the remainder of the novel...
Steam & Soap. In a sensible introduction to The Bedbug and Selected Poetry Editor Patricia Blake recognizes the danger of clinging to any single clue to explain why the poet courted death. Mayakovsky had suffered a nervous breakdown, had been ill with a stubborn grippe, and was always 'deadly bored." In spite of his popularity, he was chronically lonely and in spite of his laureate's standing the shifting Party lines of Soviet literature had left him with a persecution complex. Besides, the latest of his long series of love affairs was going badly. Most important...