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...Athanassios, still a bachelor, had learned that Soultana was married and living in the village of Mavrodendri. He left his business and rushed off to Greece. But, fearing that "it would be hard for Soultana to abandon the little ones," Athanassios returned to Detroit. In January of this year, Soultana dispatched a telegram: COME AND MEET ME AT VERROIA RAILROAD STATION OR I WILL TAKE POISON. They met and eloped...
...Abandon the Big Four commitment to reunite Germany, a responsibility affirmed at Yalta and Potsdam, and confirmed by solemn promise of the Russians at the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva. ¶ Bow to the Russian demand that seats on important U.N. committees be equally divided between Communist and non-Communist governments. ¶ Accept a summit meeting agenda "so formulated that virtually every item-nine out of eleven-implies acceptance of a basic Soviet thesis that the Western powers reject...
...Psychologist Ernest Dichter, specialist in motivational research-"MR" to Madison Avenue clients (TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees...
...flanked by some of the nation's most respected politicians. From their mountain headquarters in the Padang Highlands of Central Sumatra the voice of the rebels sounded calm and collected, and urged compromise. All the rebels asked was that Indonesia's President 1) behave himself constitutionally, 2) abandon his partnership with the Communist Party...
...great commotion sounded in Britain. Defense Minister Duncan Sandys' White Paper, asserting flatly that major Russian aggression, even by conventional forces, would be met by nuclear retaliation, had roused a fresh hubbub of demands to ban the hydrogen bomb, to abandon nuclear weapons, to refuse the U.S.-made Thor rockets. Thousands attended meetings organized by 85-year-old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wants Britain to forswear its nuclear weapons as an example to mankind. Urged on by the Daily Herald, 70 Laborite M.P.s backed a "Victory for Socialism" group, dedicated to rejecting the U.S. missiles. Last week Sandys faced...