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...become this line's key playmaker. Weiss, Truslow, and Linglebach were regulars last year, while Holmes, a sophomore, impressed Munro enough to earn a starting position. Truslow has been slowed by a leg injury which may give Ed Churchill and exveteran Juan Vollenweider a chance to make more than token appearances...
...cherished a wish-to unite one of them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...
Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
...want to get bogged down there. The State Department would like to wheedle U Nu into an anti-Communist bloc-but U Nu shies instinctively from blocs. Like India's Nehru, he believes that blocs encourage war. Last year, U Nu cut off U.S. Point Four aid in token of his "non-alignment." During the Geneva Conference, U Nu learned further grounds for caution: 12 million neighboring Vietnamese were handed over to Communism; U.S. oratory did not save them. "It is criminal, unforgivable," complained Burma's U Kyaw Nyein, "that the super-power upon whom so much depends...
...been happening all along the Western front. For one thing, the Germans seem to know about the mutiny in advance, yet fail to attack when the French quit. In fact, the Germans, the French, the Americans and the British, as though by tacit agreement, stop all fighting except for token, scattered artillery fire. In the midst of it all, a German general flies over to discuss the crisis with the Allied commanders, to see to it that the war of the generals, the statesmen and the profiteers goes on in spite of the stale mate and war sickness that have...