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...Attacked? Malik hammered away. The real aggressors in Korea, he cried, were the South Korean government and its American masters. They had first invaded North Korea. To prove U.S. instigation, he waved aloft a news picture of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles with other American officials and South Korean army men in South Korean trenches.-"This picture shows," cried Malik, "that the aggression of the United States Government in Korea has been the result of a long-hatched plan . . . Hardly any member of the Security Council will contend that Mr. Dulles [was] in those trenches gathering violets...
...great Corpus Christi procession from St. Peter's Basilica Thursday of last week, before 300,000 onlookers, the corporal of Orvieto, carried aloft by robed, red-sashed Bohemian priests, moved just in front of Pius XII. It was observed that during the procession the Pope kept his eyes on the reliquary. The Communist mayor of Bolsena, wearing a tri-colored sash, was on hand...
...this time, the power is so great that bomber's regular engines have to be throttled down. When conditions are right, in fact, the engines can be stopped entirely and their propellers feathered. The single jet takes over and, unaided keeps the great bomber aloft...
Where a circus fails to be improbable, it fails to be a circus. There has been too much of the probable in Ringling's recent offerings. Almost one-third of the present show flaunts beautiful horses, waltzing girls, and "sixty alluring senoritas aloft" clinking sixty golden glockenspiels aloft. Partly because of this, the big-top festival aroma has been missing from recent shows. Gone are the lions and tigers and men shooting from cannons; in their place are sexy ballets. The aroma was better...
...runways at Czechoslovakia's Bratislava, Brno and Moravska Ostrava, the morning planes for Prague roared off as usual one day last week. Aloft in the three state-owned airliners (DC-3s) were 85 passengers and crewmen. With them flew melodrama...