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Professor W.P. Webb declares flatly that "the principle of the Republican Party itself was archaic and had been archaic for years" [TIME, Dec. 5]. I object, on the grounds that if the dignity and creative force of an individual is not to be preferred over the extended palm of the laissez-faire masses, if free enterprise is not to be preferred over nationalization of business (and professions), if a sound government economy is not to be preferred to a government pledged to spending and the increasement of the national debt, and if belief in the operation of natural economic laws...
First it was Bulgaria's charge d'affaires who had the riot act read to him. Dr. Peter Voutov listened silently for 15 minutes while Under Secretary of State Jim Webb demanded an end to the nonsense of trying to implicate U.S. Minister Donald R. Heath in Sofia's espionage trials. Then Hungarian Minister Imre Horvath was summoned to the State Department, dressed down in terms he could barely understand (because his English is poor). For closer study, he got a formal protest note to be sent to his government...
...Webb told Hungary, was outraged at its arrest and month-long confinement of Robert A. Vogeler, assistant vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., and the recent jailing of Israel Jacobson, head of the American Joint Distribution Committee. To make sure that the protest was understood, he announced that, until further notice, U.S. citizens would not be permitted to travel in Hungary...
...Against. With equal pride, the Braves announced their haul in the big deal. From the Giants they got two hard-hitting, rifle-armed outfielders, Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall, one able-bodied shortstop, Buddy Kerr, and one nondescript pitcher, Sam Webb. Kerr and Marshall had been in Durocher's doghouse almost from the day he took over as Giants manager two seasons...
...Webb could only counsel watchful waiting. Said he: "This the Republicans need to bear in mind. They are going to have thin pickings until the present principle of developing a social state has failed...