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...Ruml, speaking in Manhattan this week, then stated a view which should bore nobody: much of the talk of a world state to control the atom is beside the point; the world won't be ready for a world state for at least 20 years. Said Ruml...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...
Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere to go," cried the baby-faced cinemactress (All That Money Can Buy-). The OP A gave itself a week to decide...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, long the self-appointed primer of civil service's lush vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...
Aurore Dupin was a center of controversy from the day she was born. Her mother, Sophie, daughter of a Paris bird-seller, bore several illegitimate children (they all died) to her aristocratic lover, Captain Maurice Dupin, before he was persuaded into marriage a month before Aurore's birth. Then mother and daughter hooked themselves onto the baggage train of Napoleon's Peninsular armies and trailed around after the captain, who was aide-de-camp to Marshal Murat...