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...Assembly, by a vote of 47 to 5, had denounced the Reds for holding prisoners in violation of the Korean truce agreement. Immediately, Hammarskjold shot off a cable seeking an audience in Peking "soon after Dec. 26th" with Red China's Premier and Foreign Minister, Chou Enlai. For six days no reply came, other than bitter and belligerent Radio Peking broadcasts. On the seventh day Chou answered adroitly, with, two almost simultaneous cables...
...victory over the Quakers enabled the Big Red to retain its Ivy championship and was its fifth straight win after having dropped its opening four games. Four Yale, whose 4-2-0 record tied Cornell's, it was the Blue's first League title since 1946 and its 26th since the League started...
...National Conference of Christians and Jews, holding its 26th annual meeting, submitted a 39-page report to President Eisenhower on the "spiritual resources for brotherhood" in the U.S., ranging from its Judaeo-Christian heritage to the Supreme Court ruling on desegregation. Eisenhower told the group: "Without a concept of the dignity of man founded on religious faith, we are sunk...
...grinding monotone of competitive bidding filled the ballrooms of Washington's Mayflower Hotel. For nearly two weeks, 3,000 bridge players had been fidgeting, frowning and fussing with their cards while they sat through 10,860 hands and struggled for six national titles at the 26th annual Summer Championship of the American Contract Bridge League. The tension was enough to drive strong men to drink. Eventually...
...California's 26th District Democrats (but not National Chairman Stephen Mitchell) endorsed Jimmy Roosevelt for Congress despite...