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...Council, created last winter by Britain, France and the Benelux countries, is headed by a Committee of Ministers (the Foreign Ministers of the ten founding nations) on which each member votes according to his nation's policy. The Consultative Assembly, however, is a revolutionary departure: its 87 members* represent political groups inside their countries (excluding Communists), are supposed to act as Europeans; thus, a Winston Churchill could team up with the champions of capitalist democracy from other countries, a Herbert Morrison with Socialists. But the Consultative Assembly's agenda is controlled by the Committee of Ministers. The limitation...
Last week the union's executive board accused him of bringing his beloved Woodworkers "into discredit," fired him despite an appeal from his $1,700-a-year job, said he could hold no union job for ten months. Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support. Said he truculently: "I am convinced that my dismissal is part of the campaign against the Communists...
...Scarcely a month after moving in, Prince Phil ip last week was recalled (at his own request) to active duty as a lieutenant with the Royal Navy, after ten months on the half-pay list...
...Ten minutes later, for the first time in ten years, Jan came face to face with Josepha and his son, who had grown so tall that he scarcely knew him. For a moment the Olechnys stood still, then they rushed weeping into each other's arms. Last week they prepared to go to Canada, which had accepted them as farmer immigrants. The Olechnys hoped it would be their last trip for a while...
Since Ethel Merman has earned more than $1,000,000 in ten Broadway musicals (Lindsay & Grouse are at work on an idea for a new one), making a living is presumably not a major worry. One of her friends, puzzled by her offstage venture, asked, "What do you expect to get out of your radio show?" Merman answered shortly: "A sponsor...