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...three weeks, Joe McCarthy, the State Department and the British government have been engaged in a tortuous, three-cornered wrangle over the number of British ships engaged in trade with Red China. The trouble really began when a witness before McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations testified that 100 British ships had called at Communist Chinese ports during the first three months of 1953. The fact was, replied the British Information Service indignantly, that British ships had made only 97 trips to China during the period in question, and 16 of the 97 were made by one ship sailing...
Manufactured in Whitehall. Hussein's Jordan is economic nonsense, a state manufactured in Whitehall after World War I to serve Britain's strategic purposes. Its 37,000 sq. mi. are three-fifths desert, with no oil, no industrial raw materials, tortuous roads and one inaccessible port (Agaba). The population, tripled t01,400,000 by the annexation of part of Palestine and the influx of refugees, is divided against itself. Refugee camps are an organized horror of dirt and malnutrition. Jordan scrapes along largely on British handouts, and glories chiefly in its 15,000-man, British-officered Arab Legion...
...mile race, the roar of the Bergstrom crowd was quickly drowned by the louder roar of the 19 entries-Allards, Ferraris, Jaguars, etc. The president of the Sports Car Club, Driver Fred Wacker Jr. of Chicago went out early with engine trouble. After the first few laps over the tortuous 4.48-mile course (including turns of 110° and 135°) the race settled down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker on the corners, but invariably lost ground...
High above the winter resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting...
...Theme by Paganini swept along like a fresh breeze in a musty corridor, slamming doors on heavy-handed traditions and uncovering the fine old structure. Listeners heard more details than they believed possible, played in tones of pastel shading. Then the pianist flashed through Schoenberg's tortuous Suite, Op. 25 and surprised even hardened modern music lovers: its improbable burblings came through almost as easily as a Viennese waltz. After that came Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 110 and, for a dazzling change of pace, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. When it was over, the audience demanded...