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...provide it. "The developments of the past few days within the Soviet Union," Trujillo announced importantly, forced him to quit the U.N. and head for home to serve as Foreign Minister (for his dummy-President, brother Hector). He left the impression that in the days of confusion and tumult sure to follow Stalin's death, the world could at least feel certain that there would be a firm hand in the Foreign Office of the Dominican Republic...
...concourse like a bull elephant bursting out of a screen of jungle. It headed incongruously across the floor toward the crowded waiting room. Then the concrete flooring gave way and it crashed through into a baggage room below amid clouds of steam and dust and a heart-stopping tumult of sound. The first coach hung at an angle over the gaping hole. The second coach also entered the concourse. Other front coaches were derailed, but passengers in the rear coaches did not realize there had been an accident. They thought that the engineer had made a rather jolting stop...
...that the tumult and shouting of our national conventions era are over, I feel quite constrained to write you in connection with what seemed to me-and I know to many others-as a deliberate "smear" of my political record when I was selected by the Republican National Committee as Temporary Chairman of the 1952 national convention. This article appeared on page 18 of the June 23 edition of TIME. At that moment there seemed to be no urgent reason for me to protest about the article, because the damage had been done. However, I have been at a loss...
...friends, more important than winning the election is governing the nation . . . When the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife, dissension and materialism at home, and ruthless, inscrutable and hostile power abroad...
...last week, pistol-bearing carabineros watched as left-wing students gathered, chanting: "Chile, yes! Yankees, no!" Inside, deputies packed the chamber to vote on a treaty under which the U.S. would give Chile a share of the $38,150,000 available for military aid to Latin America. Amid tumult and tension, each deputy rose, voted and explained his vote. Cried Socialist Poet Baltazar Castro: "I vote no because I want a free and worthy homeland." Retorted Conservative José Correa: "I vote yes, for the same reason." The treaty passed...