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Time for Truce? Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz, the proud and stubborn army officer who has traveled so long and so far with the Reds, suddenly decided that a personal meeting between President Eisenhower and himself might "ease the present tense situation." Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and had what he later described as a "most cordial" talk on improving relations. Toriello tried hard to put over the idea that the issue really keeping the two countries apart is the United Fruit Co.'s troubles with the Guatemalan government, and that...
...issue and the realities of the decision, and the new President was himself a target of abuse. Nathan Pusey met this situation with a serene and quiet courage which did as much as the earlier acts of specific decision to affirm the continuing integrity of the University. Stubborn in the right, strong in his convictions as an administrator and as a man, bold where the freedom of the human mind and spirit is concerned Nathan Pusey has made himself, in the space of a few short months, the President of Harvard both in name and in deed...
...came, many Frenchmen at home had given up. "Verdun?" said the moderate left-wing newspaper Combat bitterly. "Verdun was a position which could be held at all costs because the entire future depended on it ... But what does Dienbienphu mean for the French fighting man? ... An obsessive, slow and stubborn war. A terrible kind of war for which the French were not made-because they have clear intelligence, and like to know for what they are fighting. They are impulsive, and need to have a little glory stirring their flags, a little enthusiasm swelling their hearts . . . But here...
Mendelssohn: Two-piano Concerto in E Major (Orazio Frugoni & Eduard Mrazek, pianists; Vienna Pro Musica Symphony conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vox). A bright, attractive score written by Mendelssohn when he was only 15, and unperformed for more than a century. Pianist Frugoni, who tilted with a stubborn Soviet-zone librarian in Germany to bring the long-forgotten music to light (TIME, July 16, 1951), plays his part with high spirits...
...this unhappy juncture, the Russians sent Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov on a quiet trip back to Paris-officially to arrange for the visit of a Russian ballet company. Bidault suspected that his real mission was to assess the possibilities of a Cabinet revolt which would sweep stubborn, gallant little Georges Bidault and time-serving old Premier Lan-iel out of office...