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...noose was dangling over not only the General. If Ike's judgment could be trusted-that the Senators' recommendations would force the Army to abandon some of its overseas assignments-U.S. foreign policy was also in danger of strangulation...
Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...
...Clothes. As further innovation, the Vatican last week said that the Pope had decided to abandon the usual custom of holding the consistory in private. To show that world brotherhood was both necessary and attainable, the ceremony would be held in St. Peter's. Thus on Feb. 18 spectators would see cardinals from the 19 nations-including French and German-publicly embrace in accordance with ritual and exchange the "kiss of peace...
...silence of the court could mean only one thing: guilty. On one of the two counts, "culpable inefficiency" (failure to abandon ship promptly) in the torpedoing of his ship, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the court had acquitted Captain Charles B. McVay III, U.S.N. But the court's silence on the charge of "negligence" (in his failure to zigzag his ship) meant that on that count the court had found McVay guilty. Last week, as the Navy prepared to review its court's findings, McVay faced a bleak future...