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Actually John Lewis, having shown again that he can threaten the nation with cold homes and idle blast furnaces by a casual shake of his shaggy mane, was merely content to rest on his laurels for a while. The public interest coincided with his own because...
...still lingered. Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...
...Throw That Man Out!" Trouble started when the Reverend Powell brusquely shooed news photographers away, so that a photographer could shoot some pictures for LIFE first. When one of the newsmen squawked, the bridegroom told a cop: "Throw that man out!" Thereupon news photographers did what they often threaten but rarely do, staged a sitdown strike. Terms: either the Reverend Powell apologized, or they would take no pictures...
Frustrated Petrillo kept squirming until he hit upon an idea: put Interlochen on his "unfair list" and threaten its instructors with union suspension (TIME, Feb. 19). Dr. Maddy countered by employing college teachers and composers who, not dependent upon instrumental jobs, are not alarmed by Petrillo's threat. Last week he opened the camp as usual, said nonchalantly: "Now it's up to Petrillo. Actually [he] doesn't make a bit of difference. We're going on with our work...
...most devastating document! . . . Explosive! . . . Its secrets, when published, threaten to tumble still more famed figures from high places. . . . Secrets! Perfidies! Private Lives...