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...State Department and MSA. Charged the investigators: "Since the beginning of the Korean war, our Government has had no clear-cut policy on China trade by our allies; they had inadequate factual information as to the kind, extent and effect of the trade; they lacked the forcefulness and vigor necessary to convince our allies that they should ban this trade...
Just when a truce seemed near, the Communists rekindled the fighting war with unexpected vigor. In a driving rain one night, Chinese Communist bugles shrilled, signal flares blossomed under the low clouds. Then, on the mountainous central front. 17,000 Chinese Reds hit the crack ROK Capitol Division and three other South Korean outfits in the heaviest enemy attack in two years...
...mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours a week), Kip set out to repair the damage. Today a new, ten-story office building in Washington houses the Kiplinger publications and a staff of 315. Changing Times has climbed to an estimated circulation...
Despite the torpor of Washington's midsummer weather, the President of the U.S. reacted with vigor to last week's news. He conferred with John Foster Dulles and top military and diplomatic aides on the renewed Korean truce negotiations. In a shrewd diplomatic gesture, he offered $15 million worth of food to the people of East Germany. Then he turned to some distressed citizens of his own country...
...increasingly celebrated everyday, human doings. The men who painted the actors, musicians, girls and horses on the following pages were down-to-earth and delicate at the same time. Their lighthearted pictures may rest below the loftiest peaks of Japanese art, but they have a delightful freshness and vigor all their...