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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat who can claim to have bested the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a face-to-face cold-war skirmish is Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers...
...years since James W. Blake composed his hurdy-gurdy verses, New York City's population has more than doubled. Today 7,795,471 New Yorkers and 370,000 commuters trip fantastically over one another on sidewalks and subway platforms, particularly in the morning and evening rush hours. Last week, climaxing a two-year house-by-house survey, the City Planning Commission brought forth a hardheaded proposal: the only way to save New York from death by overcrowding is to regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live...
...twins' careers are remarkably parallel, on and off court. Both are married to surgeons-Betty to onetime (1935) Princeton Football Captain W. Pepper Constable; Peggy to Robert White of Rochester. Each has three children. Chief difference: Betty is lefthanded. Peggy was champion in 1952 and 1953. Betty won in 1950, regained her championship in 1956 and has held it ever since...
...market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...
Suez Replaced. The book (published in the U.S. by Putnam) went the rounds of British publishers, was rejected by some (one indignant publisher reputedly tore the book up page by page), was finally accepted by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. But W. & N. decided to hold up publication pending possible modification of Britain's vague pornography law, which gives any constable the right to seize books or have booksellers prosecuted if in his own judgment a book is obscene. Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution...