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...Sharett left Ben-Gurion's office, the chauffeur of his black Chrysler sprang to attention and began to open the door. Moshe Sharett shook his head violently, clasped the chauffeur's hand in farewell, and without a backward glance walked home to lunch...
...Catledge . . . expressed succinctly and convincingly the ingredients of the Times's loss of confidence in Mr. Shafer when he said: 'Not only must we be sure that the person who handles our [Communist] news is not proCommunist. We must be equally sure that he will not lean backward to prove that he is not a Communist or no longer a Communist.' Mr. Shafer could give the Times no such assurance, his record on the job notwithstanding...
...aggressive adventures and military preparations, including the production of outdated arms; 4) started the war in Korea confident that a walkover victory would be accepted by the U.S.; 5) recklessly exposed the Soviet Union to the grave danger of a global war and possible atomic attacks which the backward Soviet air force could have neither prevented nor retaliated...
...K.O.s in 29 pro victories, could not even tumble Hurricane. The tall boy merely scowled, in the seventh even had the strength to blow up a storm of his own. His bee-swarming attack of pushes and pawings mixed with a few punches had Patterson going backward for the greater part of three rounds. But Patterson was more chastened than hurt; he came back in the final rounds with a crowd-rousing demonstration of a light-heavy frappéing the brains of a cast-iron heavyweight. Jackson somehow stayed on his feet, twice taking the scenic route back...
Throughout the world, more people are reading newspapers than ever before. Last week a UNESCO survey, "World Communications," totted up the world's daily circulation: 262 million, a sizable increase. The most impressive gains came in backward countries, where the drive against illiteracy has brought newspapers to African jungle villages and remote South Sea islands. The U.S. had the biggest slice of the world's daily circulation -more than 55 million-but in printing 344 daily copies per 1,000 inhabitants, it trailed behind Britain (609 per 1,000) and nine other countries, including Japan (with...