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...Disturbed because athletes all over the world had "misunderstood" the International Olympic Committee's latest addition to the Olympic oath-a pledge by each performer that he not only is an amateur but intends to remain one-the I.O.C. executive board met in Lausanne, decided to suspend the new pledge, resigned itself to the fact that an amateur is an amateur until he plays...
...ailing. 125-year-old Boston Post, twice forced to suspend publishing since midsummer (TIME. Sept. 3), went down for the third time last week-and most of its 800 employees counted it drowned. Bravely, the paper's three court-appointed trustees announced that they were still negotiating with prospective buyers and hoped to get the paper sold. But in ordering a shutdown "until further notice," they admitted that no deal was in sight to justify carrying the paper's weekly operating loss. Boston's other dailies began pitching energetically for the Post's 255,000 daily...
...Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to study the whole loyalty system. In April 1952, the Committee recommended that the government establish one encompassing program based on "suitability" or general fitness for federal employment. Such a criterion would have regularized the security procedure and enabled the government to suspend an employee without undue damage to his personal reputation...
...barring foreign capital from oil exploitation, began denouncing exports of radioactive material to the U.S. (thorium oxide and thorium-bearing monazite sand, no uranium). The showdown came last week, when the Security Council, loaded with nationalistic armed forces brass, adopted a military-dominated commission's recommendations that Brazil suspend exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their way. Still in effect was the "Atoms for Peace" agreement in which the U.S., without asking anything in return, promised to provide Brazil with 13.2 Ibs. of uranium reactor...
...Long Wait. The case now goes automatically to Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas, who can reduce or suspend but not increase the sentence, or can order a retrial. After his decision a three-man military board of review must take another look. Such steps normally take months. And while they are under way, Marine McKeon will remain restricted to a ten-mile area around Parris Island, uncertain until the last whether he is finally to be read out of the corps in disgrace...