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Some of the sentries of the republic were asleep after the war-and some are still drowsy. The finding that they were not traitors does not answer the charge that they were bad sentries...
...Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...
...vast quantities of orange juice. (Some of his staff members, he recalls, insisted bitterly that the orange juice, like every other form of nourishment on Rhodes, was flavored with olive oil.) After 81 days of bargaining, Bunche achieved the three armistice agreements which finally put an end to the war-and gave U.N. one of its few claims to solid achievement. "Ralph Bunche," said an Egyptian delegate, "is one of the world's greatest...
With one big rush, the stock market last week wiped out the last of its losses caused by the Korean war-and then some. In the closing session of the week, the landing at Inchon pushed it still higher in a fever of trading that reached 820,000 shares in the last hour. Trading had soared past 2,000,000 shares for three successive days, and boosted the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks by 5.04 points...
...could be. The fire in the grass roofs of Korea might spread into atomic war-and it might not. It might, on the other hand, be the beginning of peace...