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Adlal Stevenson found himself looking into the barrel of a Red policeman's Tommy gun after prowling about the ruins of Hitler's chancellery in East Berlin, was told, "You move, I shoot." ("Curiously," Stevenson later remarked, "I didn't move.") Because a member of Stevenson's party took pictures of him amid the rubble, they were held at gunpoint by seven policemen for half an hour while resisting a trip down to headquarters. The Communists, who did not know who Stevenson was, finally released the group after seizing the exposed film. Said Stevenson...
UTILITIES Private-Power Victory For three years, five New York State utility companies* have wanted to build a $400 million hydroelectric plant to harness the Niagara River (TIME, June 16, 1952). But getting permission to go ahead was as grueling as negotiating the falls in a barrel. Public-power interests, which want federal agencies to do the job, blocked them; New York's Governor Thomas Dewey insisted that Niagara development ought to be a state responsibility...
...from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown (i.e., lacked enemies) made him an acceptable Premier. Nobody questioned him hard. The Assembly cheered...
...organ grinders of Mexico City are to be seen and heard from noon till midnight's last serenade. They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel, winding the crank and passing the hat. Their instruments, invariably German-made, are rented (for 5 pesos a day) from old Maestro Gilberto Lazaro, whose enormous, crumbling house in Tepito, the thieves' market, is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes by listening to records, then beating them out on a piano...
Crude oil, whose price had not been raised since 1947, went up 25? a barrel (to $2.90), even though there were some signs of an oil surplus. Said President John Brice of Carter Oil, a Jersey Standard subsidiary: "Costs of labor, materials and services have risen substantially, and an adjustment has been long overdue." The adjustment will mean higher home-heating costs next winter. Gasoline prices have already been raised in many states, and last week Standard of Ohio announced a boost of 1½? per gallon, the biggest...