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Crime is on the increase in the U.S., the FBI reported last week. Its records for 1952 show 2,036,510 major crimes (four a minute), up 8.5% over 1951, and the highest yearly total so far. The bureau's breakdown...
...crowd of expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...
Mixed Feelings. The U.S. press and people reacted with mixed feelings. Ex-President Harry Truman remarked: "I am sorry to hear of [Stalin's] trouble ... I'm never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear...
...bulk of the money, said Po, will go into peaceful people's pursuits: 59.24% for "national economic construction and social, cultural and educational projects" -and only 22.38% for war measures. But Po's breakdown was misleading. China's Reds build highways and railroads only where they have strategic value; most new factories are geared for heavy industry. Outside experts estimated that at least 60% of the budget will go into military expenditures...
...some odd reason, they put me in the tank corps; they never could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...