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...recent months the pressure has been stepped up, and Japan has shown a new and disconcerting willingness to listen. The Red Chinese, in particular, have spared no efforts. Last week a Red Chinese trade-union delegation beat its way up and down Japan, loudly demanding that Premier Hayato Ikeda "suspend his hostility" toward Red China. And a delegation of 16 top Japanese businessmen flew off to Peking on an economic good-will mission. "World thinking is rapidly shifting," said Managing Director Heigo Fuji of Yawata Steel, Japan's biggest steelmakers. "Japan, too, must take positive steps by actively supporting...
...postponement in order to give McCloy time to rejudge U.S. stands and strategy of the Geneva test-ban talks, which had been scheduled to begin next week. In seeking the delay-until March-Kennedy will continue to abide by Dwight Eisenhower's decision in October 1958 to suspend U.S. nuclear tests. But strong pressure in favor of more tests will come from some of Kennedy's nuclear and military advisers, who are eager to try out the so-called "neutron bomb" (TIME, Nov. 14)-a new breed of hydrogen weapon that is triggered by conventional explosives rather than...
...sculptures happen to look something like beasts, birds and people, but any resemblance is pretty much coincidental. Convinced that "art school makes you think rather than feel," Chadwick taught himself, and approaches his art much as an action painter would. He tries to suspend conscious thought in developing his forms because "the subconscious has the larger vocabulary." He works rapidly with wire and metal rods, allows his construction to grow almost as if it had a goal of its own. If the construction does not please him, he can correct or discard; if it does, he fills it in like...
...York Stock Exchange, American Telephone & Telegraph, which normally creeps up and down in fractions of points, last week jumped 7 3/8 points in a few hours to an alltime high of 103½. So many buyers were after the stock that the Stock Exchange had to suspend trading for 15 minutes...
...need world's only major nation with gold-backing requirements, which have actually been reduced over Switzerland and Belgium. The practical impact of the law is lost because the present U.S money supply is backed by 38% in gold instead of 25%. The Federal Reserve Board can suspend the backing indefinately in a real emergency, thereby depriving it of any solid gold status. Yet the reserve provisions leave so little gold left for international settlements-about $6 billion of the nations $18 billion stock- that when the level drops, foreign bankers get nervous and turn their balances...