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...delegates at a meeting of a U.N. economic commission gathered in Bandung, Indonesia. Asia is being fooled, said Russia's chunky S. S. Nemchina; the U.S. is helping Asian lands only to enslave and "rob" them, and sinister strings are attached to U.S. offers. The Asians responded in unfamiliar fashion. Nemchina's words had stung their pride: instead of trying to prove their neutralism, the delegates of India, Burma and Pakistan sprang to the defense...
When Texas' rangy Lyndon Johnson was elected Senate minority leader this month, some of his colleagues were suspicious, while others were sympathetic. He had to organize the Senate section of his battered and divided party for the unfamiliar role of opposition. Many a "liberal" Senator feared that Johnson would freeze out the Northerners. By last week, however, the sympathy and suspicion had turned to surprise and respect...
When her husband was sent to France in 1951, Louise and the two children went along, and she began to compose in earnest. Her biggest (yearlong) musical problem to date: scheming up the orchestral part for La Fete. Although she was unfamiliar with the instruments, she visualized a solution. "To me," she says, "an orchestra is like a palette of a painter. I see the instruments as colors: trumpets are red, violins are green, flutes are blue...
...Coquette. During World War II, she just sat tight, played mah-jongg, and kept out of the newspapers. As wife of the president of Columbia University, she did the sensible thing, and acted since she was a stranger to the academic world - as if she were on some unfamiliar Army post. But at Marnes-la-Coquette, the 14-room French mansion which the Eisen howers occupied when Ike commanded SHAPE, Mamie served a unique appren ticeship for life in the White House...
...raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed crap tables (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), having failed to attract Americans in any quantities, were merely confusing the other customers, who stood around in baffled silence as the croupiers intoned such unfamiliar phrases as "I'm so hot I won't need a blanket tonight." In recent years, the Casino had lost money, and Prince Rainier, who gets 10% of the take in profitable years, was looking for some $1,000,000 in new capital. Three of the Casino...