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Worthy Pupil. Korea was first on the agenda, but not first in the hearts of the delegates. The South Korean delegate proposed Syngman Rhee's plan for supervised elections, to be held in North Korea only, for the loo-odd seats kept vacant in the Republic of Korea assembly. North Korea just as predictably demanded, among other things, withdrawal of all foreign troops. As Dulles rose to endorse South Korea's plan, Chou scribbled notes, asked to speak as soon as Dulles sat down...
...Free Jurists (TIME, July 21, 1952). The U.S. commandant in Berlin bluntly charged "clear evidence of complicity" by Soviet officials in this "outrageous abduction," and the British demanded an investigation. But few had any hope of seeing Dr. Trushnovich again, unless and until he appeared in a Communist court, vacant-eyed and slow of speech, in the inexorable pattern the Communists have made cruelly familiar...
While other Senators debated whether or not to oust him and declare vacant the seat he had held for 19 years, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez slumped in his chair like a weary gnome. The Senate had spent some $225,000 to investigate irregularities in the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election, in which Chavez edged out Republican Patrick Hurley. When the vote came, every Democratic Senator was present, and they stood with Chavez to the last man-along with five Republicans and Wayne Morse. By a vote of 53 to 36, the U.S. Senate decided to keep...
...Should Happen to You is pleasant entertainment though there are some dull stretches. Garson Kanin has proven that given Judy Holliday he can create a funny role. And Miss Holliday, with her vacant stare, indicates that gentlemen prefer blondes because some of them are pretty hilarious...
...Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., 53, moved up from the presidency to the long-vacant (since the death of his father in 1943) job of board chairman of Spiegel, Inc., the nation's No. 3 mail-order and retail house. Spiegel, still the chief executive officer, took over the family business in 1932, when sales were only $7,000,000 and the company was losing money, got it back on a profitable basis the following year and by last year had boosted sales to $134 million. Replacing him as president: Robert S. Engelman, 41, who, like Spiegel, graduated from Dartmouth...