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Doing Too Much. Butler seemed wan and tired as he stepped up to the dispatch box amid Labor jeers and Tory silence. He started with the good news, pointing out that his "credit squeeze" (TIME, Aug. 8) had strengthened sterling and "effectively halted" the loss of Britain's reserves. British industrial production is still growing at the rate of almost 6% a year, yet "in spite of new production records, we are faced with a shortage of steel . . . For every individual unemployed there are now more than two vacancies . . . Imports have been 11% higher than they were in corresponding...
...didn't require a high-school diploma. At the age of 16, he had seen Bing Crosby on the stage. Cried Sinatra, in a voice that broke in his mouth like raw spaghetti: "I can do that!" Dolly and Marty had a good laugh. "G'wan, ya bum." his father used to twit him. "Why'n't ya go to work?" Frankie would burst into tears of rage and frustration, but his ambition held firm and sure. The next thing Dolly and Marty knew, he had won an amateur contest at the State The ater...
Thailand's able Prince Wan pointed out that the Communists are busily training Thais living in China "for infiltration and subversion" in Thailand. "What does [coexistence] mean?" he demanded. "Does it mean live and let live...
...John plunged ahead on his own. Meeting Chou early in the week, he demanded cheerily: "Why don't we try to settle this Formosa problem?" Three times Kotelawala set up a luncheon meeting for Chou to discuss Formosa with the five Colombo powers and Romulo and Prince Wan. Chou begged off, once was whisked off to a dinner given by Nehru to which Sir John was not invited. Sir John lost patience...
...other featured performers streamed in. From Manila came ebullient Carlos Romulo, determined to fight off any effort to turn Bandung into an anti-U.S. or anti-Western propaganda barrage. Also lined up on the pro-Western side: Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, Thailand's Oxford-educated Prince Wan Waithayakon, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu (a former NATO delegate), and Lebanon's stoutly pro-Western Charles Malik. Besides Chou's, there was only one Communist delegation: North Viet Nam's, led by Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong. General Principles. For months...