Word: truce
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...with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S. U.S. bases abroad have been built to menace the U.S.S.R., said he, but the plan is "doomed to inevitable failure"; the U.S. has committed "gross violations" of the Korean truce agreement...
...held to a discussion only of Germany and Austria. He might convincingly talk of total atomic disarmament-and a ban on atomic weapons, without any other kind of disarmament, would, as SHAPE Commander Alfred M. Gruenther acknowledged this week, be to Russia's advantage. Molotov might suggest a truce in Indo-China, and thereupon demand that Red China be invited to Berlin. Whatever the details, the Communists made no secret of their main ambition at Berlin: to defeat the West's plan for a European Army. The method would be to rouse France's ancient fears...
...barbed-wire compounds at Panmunjom sit more than 22,000 defiantly anti-Communist Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war whose determination not to go home was the main issue that hung up a Korean truce for a year and a half. If all goes well next week at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 23, the 22,000 will walk south to freedom. To bring about this event-which will liquidate the blood-stained prisoner problem once...
After some four years of armed truce, the enemy camps of Winthrop Rockefeller, who is holed up on his big, new farm near Little Rock, Ark., and his estranged wife, Barbara Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, who is holed up in their Park Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan, fired major salvos at each other. Winthrop's lawyer led off by announcing that Bobo had upped her "insatiable" settlement demands from $5, $500,000 to $10,000,000. Countered Bobo, through a friend: Nonsense. The settlement offer which Winthrop made last October and she returned for "consideration of new terms not involving...
With this shot in the arm, the economy resumed its forward drive. Retail sales reached a new record, and production kept rising. In the face of this economic strength, the truce in Korea had little noticeable effect, except on the stock market, which started to rise. Not till October was there any significant slackening in the steady rise of production; then it began to edge downward as the makers of autos, appliances, refrigerators, etc., began to trim their output, which in most cases had already exceeded their fondest hopes for the full year. Those who had feared that any step...