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...swank Dorchester Hotel and Grosvenor House (which also housed the Arab delegates), Drs. Chaim Weizman and Nahum Goldman, of the Jewish Agency Executive, watchfully waited. Neville Laski, K.C. (Harold's brother) raced between conference and Whitehall with news of the latest developments...
London was engaged last week in a war of attrition with itself. Inside Abbey Lodge, the Duchess of Bedford apartments and other big blocks of swank lodgings were encamped hundreds of squatters who refused to come out. Squads of alert bobbies prevented food, clothing and reinforcements from going in. The Government had ordered water and electricity turned off. Lice, cold, dirt, lack of bedding and food reduced the squatters to a pale, disheveled, begrimed group...
British Communists reached for the leadership of Britain's Squatter Movement (TIME, Sept. 2). Into two blocks of swank Kensington flats and eight adjoining buildings they led a small army of families who have been living in crowded conditions reminiscent of Moscow. Said Communist Party headquarters: "Regardless of any official warning, we are determined to get 10,000 of our members into decent houses immediately." This week, Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called an agitated special Cabinet meeting to consider the emergency...
...wants to be a separate member of the Federation. The French, who had agreed to all other Viet Nam demands, said no. Ho walked out of the conference, and while his guerrillas continued to kill French soldiers almost daily, holed up in his flower-littered suite at Paris' swank Royal Monceau Hotel...
...poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, had its glass front smashed, its lobby wrecked...