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...blame for this extraordinary tug-of-words lay not with the press but with an Administration that has shown notable candor in discussions of the President's health. Yet after each of Eisenhower's three illnesses, as the A.P.'s News Analyst James Marlow protested, the White House "first gave wrong information or only part of the truth and let it stand for hours." Last week's initial diagnosis of a "chill" was in force 16 hours longer than the announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack...
Chains & Max Factor. One of the most striking victories in the emotional tug of war between the past and the future has taken place in Pakistan, which ten years ago was one of the most feudalistic Moslem areas in the world...
However it works, her magnetism draws 3,500 fan letters a week and exerts its tug freely across international borders. At last year's Cannes Film Festival (where she danced with Rita Hayworth's ex-husband, Aly Khan), the international press corps virtually ignored other stars in a tumbling pursuit of the blonde American girl who had then appeared in Europe in only two movies (Pushover, Phffft!). Last week, vacationing in the frequent company of an attentive, wealthy Italian businessman, Mario Bandini, 33, Kim created traffic jams on the Roman stamping ground of Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida...
...implications were plain: Khrushchev was keenly aware of the tug of capitalist freedom. And the implications lent special weight to Dulles' words-before-the-fact definition of the basis of U.S. foreign policy. "The government which is responsive to the will of the people, which admits of diversity and freedom of thought, is the government which has the future ahead of it," he told the newsmen. "I don't put any dates on these things. I don't say what is going to happen in one year, five years, ten years, but I am confident that that...
...sticky broken-home situation that would challenge the sweet wisdom of Dorothy Dix. He just cannot forgive his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) for letting herself be seduced, then married by that smooth talker from the State Department (Richard Eastham). The brink is attained when Mary shows up to play tug of war with Bing for custody of their ten-year-old son (Malcolm Brod-rick), a sensitive lad who loves his papa, hates his mamma, and utters sagacities, mature beyond belief, that would help resolve the mess if only the squabbling adults would listen to him. Also giving Crosby daily...