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...Times's correspondents throughout the world sent the story echoing back with "reaction" stories from "informed sources." (General reaction: extreme skepticism.) Reporters tried in vain to badger a comment out of General Eisenhower as he was about to go into Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel on Christmas morning. In Washington next day, Harry Truman was besieged all day by queries, finally said that he would be "pleased indeed if any agreement can be reached with Stalin which would achieve world peace." Ike's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, after conferring by telephone with...
Bloody City. Fox taught that the Inner Light of God's grace was in every man, there for the seeking. He felt himself called by God, with power to preach and to heal, "to bring people off from all the world's religions, which are vain, that they might know the pure religion, and might visit the fatherless, the widows and the strangers, and keep themselves from the spots of the world."-He and his followers saw themselves as latter-day Prophets, trying to bring their people back to the live faith and concrete charitable sacrifice of primitive...
...week's end Prime Minister Nehru, responding perhaps as much to the violence as to Sriramulu's nonviolence, announced that his government had decided to establish Andhra state. But he still refused to include Madras city. To that extent, Potti Sriramulu of Madras city had died in vain...
...mortar and artillery rounds that almost cratered the top of Little Nori, Mao's men attacked and drove the stunned Koreans off the knob. The ROKs counterattacked, retook the knob, were driven off again. Nine more times the ROKs tried to regain the lost ground, in vain...
...discovering the loss, Wagner said members searched the hall for two and a half hours. They examined the ticket box and looked under the tables--in vain. The money was gone...