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Against this small victory the Reds chalked up an enormous loss. Moscow and Peking work closely together, and in the light of recent dissension among the Western allies they could have expected Peking's move on the U.S. prisoners to widen the rift. An obvious part of this strategy was the Red Chinese announcement-on the same day that the U.S. airmen were convicted-that they would release a Canadian flyer also captured during the Korean war (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Communists figured that Washington would scream with indignation; Britain and France would interpret this as a further evidence...
Wally went to Texas A. & M. on an athletic scholarship (he got a Master's in administrative education), and learned a lot more baseball. "I even learned how to break a batting slump," Wally remembers now. "You just widen your stance, stand flatfooted and try to hit the ball over the shortstop's head. It always works...
...first effect was in the relations be tween the Western allies. For several years, Britain, France and the U.S. have been drifting apart. One of Molotov's obvious goals was to widen the gaps. At Berlin, the Western Three closed ranks. Dulles. Eden and Bidault worked decisively together in a unity long dangerously absent...
...hours after the government fell, the Christian Democratic high command gathered in the home of Alcide de Gasperi. It briskly agreed on a program (more reforms, more vigorous measures against Red-led violence, unemployment remedies), and nominated Fanfani as its candidate for Premier. Fanfani, the shrewd politician, hoped to widen his support by getting Right-Winger Attilio Pic-cioni as his Vice Premier. There were signs this week that politicians from left to right might have become enough aware of the common peril to rally around Fanfani. Even one group of Monarchists hinted that they might support...
JOHN L. LEWIS, who rarely loses a battle in the coal fields, has lost a bitter, 16-month fight to organize West Virginia's Independent League of Widen Miners (some 600 members) under the U.M.W. banner. The miners, working at the big Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. at Widen, one of the largest outside Lewis' union, refused to join because their pay is higher than the union average and their dues much lower (50?a month v. $4 plus for the U.M.W...