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...That I should be forced to make a German national army is ridiculous; it is grotesque," West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer complained not long ago. But having accepted the necessity, Adenauer decided to get on with it, and to have something started before Geneva could undo it. In his haste, Chancellor Adenauer, a democrat at heart but sometimes an autocrat in practice, had demanded a blank check from the Bundestag (TIME, July 11). Last week the Bundestag gave the chancellor a salutary lesson...
...with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because his client was never served with papers in the case.) Among the highlights listed...
...England, where he picked up Professor Humphrey Waldock, Oxford's ranking expert on international law, Dag Hammarskjold was advised by Sir Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts to bargain for U.N. recognition. "To release these men would simply undo the latest of a series of acts of bad faith," wrote the Daily Telegraph summarizing Eden's position. "It would not accomplish the moral rehabilitation of Communist China...
...government clerk spotted the note clipped to the wing, and relieved the errant frigate of his burden. It took a telegram, many more days, a set of stamps, two airplane trips, a boat trip and the combined efforts of both the New Zealand and French postal systems to undo the work of the bird who flew not wisely but too well...
Blondie, Jack Lemmon her disinterested Dagwood. and everything goes phffft! one night because of the leer that crawls over Jack's face as he wallows through a whodunit, where it describes how "she began, one button at a time, to undo the front of her sweater . . ." Judy flounces off to get a divorce; Jack takes up bachelor quarters with a friend (Jack Carson...