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From the first, ambitious King Abdullah of Jordan had no intention of giving up the large chunk of eastern Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying...
...more than just another chunk of territory (about twice the size of New Jersey, 3,000,000 population) for the vast Red Asiatic domain. In their conquest of Southeast Asia, the Japanese had found Hainan valuable as a base and a staging area for troop movements. The new Red imperialists could put it to similar uses, increasing their threat to Indo-China and other countries touching the South China Sea. However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles...
...could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier...
...When Molotov visited the White House, "one of the valets was quite astounded ... to find inside [his suitcase] a large chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage and a pistol...