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...ranch a mile down the road, Ike barely had his coat off before he was in the kitchen starting on his big project: a two-day vegetable soup. Hoover, an accomplished fly-fisherman who does not share Ike's love of cooking, spent more time wading in shallow St. Louis Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto...
...Prague, after a two-day trial, Czechoslovakia's supreme court sentenced Roman Catholic Bishop Stepan Trochta, 49, of Litomerice, to 25 years in prison for "spying" for the Vatican. At the same time three priests who were associated with him were sentenced to 20, 15 and seven years. As a leader of resistance against the Nazis and a known friend to Christians, Jews and Communists during years as a prisoner in Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps, Trochta was long wooed by the Czech Communist regime, which hoped to turn him into a "progressive" bishop. Trochta himself had hoped...
...narrow streets were thronged with loud-shirted bookie types from Broadway, young intellectuals in need of haircuts, crew-cut Ivy Leaguers, sailors, Harlem girls with extravagant hairdos and high-school girls in shorts. They were cats. From as far away as Kansas they had come to hear a two-day monster jazz festival...
...police bill had already passed the lower house, and Yoshida had the votes to pass it in the upper house as well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...
Accused of past Red ties by two ex-Communist tattlers, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, 49, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and now director of the U.N. Trusteeship Division, was given a clean political bill of health by the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board. Keeping mum on the possibility of perjury charges which might be slapped on Bunche's accusers, the board announced, after a two-day closed hearing: "There is no doubt as to [his] loyalty...