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...news of the Gaza shelling broke just as U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold prepared to take off on a mission to the Middle East. In sponsoring the U.N. resolution which dispatched him, the U.S. had hoped his presence could quiet the borders and add authority to the U.N. Truce Commission. Hammarskjold himself described his trip as at best "just an episode on the long road" toward Palestine settlement. At this moment, peace in the Middle East is only a relative condition, and settlement a dreamer's word. But is open war, then, a likely possibility...
...much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce settles over Tuxahatchie County, with virtue still walking barefoot on the hills, and evil, condemned only by the knowledge of its own corruption, still ruling the valley...
COEXISTENCE WITH THE U.S.S.R.: "Personally I am weary of the long semantic argument about coexistence. If we exclude the solution of atomic war, and if we exclude the solution of surrender, all we have left is some form of armed truce which we can call coexistence or anything else you like...
...Troy (Warner). "Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, wrote Thomas Hey wood, "who, living, had no roof to shroud his head." Two other cities, Rome and Hollywood, which care more about the poet's capacity to turn a profit than a phrase, have recently made an uneasy truce before the walls of Troystrictly, of course, for the sake of plunder...
...fight over control of the Cincinnati Enquirer appeared to have reached a truce last week. It began when Reporter James H. Ratliff Jr. and City Editor Jack Cronin charged top management with feathering its own nest at the paper's expense-and promptly lost their jobs (TIME, Dec. 5 et seq.). But last week stockholders overwhelmingly re-elected Reporter Ratliff to the Enquirer's board of directors. Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield-one of the employees' main targets-announced his resignation, and Publisher Roger Ferger, whose annual earnings of as much as $104,700 had come under fire...