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...charges in Korea, and 2) a period of 60 days might be allowed to the neutral custodian for assessing the wishes of the prisoners it holds. Harrison's letter closed with a clear warning that another bout of Red stalling and filibustering would be answered by another U.N. walkout: "The United Nations Command is of the opinion that unless meetings of full delegations indicate that an acceptable agreement will be reached in a reasonable time, it will be advisable to recess meetings again." Talks are scheduled to resume this Saturday...
...Houses will still serve ice cream, because ice cream workers and deliverymen are not included in the walkout. The strike does not affect Radcliffe, because they buy from a firm not on strike...
...began when the coed, Siham Salih of Baghdad's Royal College of Pharmacy & Chemistry, refused to join fellow students in a walkout. She had a good reason: the dean of the pharmacy school, against whom they were striking, is her brother-in-law. When the strike was over, a few of Siham's classmates cornered her in a classroom and berated her. She fled in tears. Soon she had reinforcements. Gallant students from the law school, enlisting in Siham's cause, pummeled her tormentors. That sent the pharmacy students out on strike again...
...South fight. Reason: the issue that divided them was "white supremacy," and "white supremacy" is no longer a live slogan in the U.S. One of the Democratic Convention's most important achievements was to make this fact clear. Few delegates really wanted to force the South into a walkout. Said Virginia's Harry Byrd: "We'll just sit here, and maybe they'll have to throw...
Everyone an Actor. But there was much that television missed. The camera failed to pick up such dramatic moments as Tom Dewey's walkout during Dirksen's nominating speech for Taft. At critical points in the proceedings it often seemed unsure where to look, fell back on meaningless long shots of the convention floor...