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...Homme Qui Salt; in Holland as De Antwoord-Man; to Poland as Dr. Wszech-wiedzki. A surprising number of questions pour in from behind the Iron Curtain. Those not answered on the air are answered by letters sent in plain envelopes and without mention of The Answer Man. Ticklish political questions are cleared through the State Department...
Miller had little to say about the ticklish subject of coffee production and prices; the inference was that the State Department no longer considered the controversial Gillette report on coffee-market manipulations (TIME, June 19) a hot issue. Instead, he bore down on world issues. Said he: "It may perhaps be charged that the" remarks I ... make are not wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While...
...Peronista eyes, the 46-year-old lawyer had added injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure...
...barely enough to fill the annual quota of 750,000. Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked the Congress, since I have been President, for a universal training program for the young men of the United States...
Union Station (Paramount) stages a police hunt for kidnapers through Los Angeles' railroad terminal, elevated trains, stockyards and municipal tunnel. After methodically nabbing three members of the gang, the cops (William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald) undertake the ticklish job of smoking out its leader (Lyle Bettger) before he can do away with his hostage, a blind teen-age girl (Allene Roberts...