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...conference on disarmament. "We are in fact invited to sit again at a conference table with the same NATO members with whom we have patiently negotiated until now," he told the Supreme Soviet, "and to launch again into sterile negotiations which do not advance the cause of disarmament one whit." In almost the same breath and on almost the same grounds, he scuttled any idea of renewed Russian participation in the U.N.'s Disarmament Commission, even though, in the hope of luring the Russians back, the commission had been enlarged to include 25 members. Thus disposing of practical roads...
...novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...
...offer my congratulations to Girard's Stateside lawyers, who seem more interested in gaining publicity than in gaining the best trial for their client; to braying Congressmen, who are more interested in "grassroots" support than in the welfare of their country. Finally, my morale will suffer not one whit if Girard is turned over to the Japanese courts. My pride in my country will, however...
...course, where Lee gambled with his infantry, Eisenhower has never risked one whit of prestige. Now, of course the AP reported yesterday that the President "at long last, had proved he could get down off his high horse and punch." This referred to a statement earlier in the day when he said he would henceforth distinguish between those Republican candidates he was "for" and those he was "enthusiastically...
...pavement artist's job." "I wonder what the Queen thinks of [it]," mused the Star's observer. "It is of a husband as no wife likes to see him-cold, aloof, almost arrogant." Away from the storm in his Florence studio. Painter Annigoni backed down not a whit: "I painted him as I saw him. During the sitting he was severe; he showed a strong will, and he was definitely not a man of society...