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...Bezpieka, Poland's security police, did its best to persuade Gomulka to confess to a formal charge of "lack of vigilance with regard to enemy agents." Instead of confessing, bullheaded Wladyslaw Gomulka counterattacked his interrogators with such vigor and skill that in the end the party had to abandon its plans to use him as the pièce de résistance in a show trial of Polish Titoists...
...bloody Poznan riots (TIME, July 9), Poland's desperate Communist bosses had to go further to assuage nationwide discontent. They admitted "immense wrongs" done to the Polish workers, promised widespread pay increases, and even swore by Marx and everything else holy that the Communist Party was about to abandon direct management of the Polish government and economy...
...tools of the diggers' trade (acetylene lamps, hammers, ropes and shovels), Robert rushed to the Dordogne estate, took with him Professor Louis Nougier of the University of Toulouse. For three hours the two scientists hacked and shoveled their way into the half-blocked cave. "We were about to abandon our search." says...
Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of heaven. To borrow one of their own sayings, they are "blackgum against thunder," and that is something when a man knows that the blackgum tree is "so hard, when lightnin hit it, is a question of who win, the fire or the wood." The many ways in which the lightning...
...held highly explosive implications for the welfare and safety of the U.S., especially since the Communists are doing everything they can to make neutralism inviting. In making their case to Leviero, the leakers whispered that the manpower cuts meant that the U.S. intended to retreat into "Fortress America" and abandon its allies overseas. Only last month, in a similar desperate gamble to preserve the Army's status quo, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, the Army's razor-sharp director of research and development, told a Senate investigating committee that the fallout from an all-out atomic attack...