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...Agenda. In Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...
...doing it in our Canadian way," said Fred McGregor, Combines (monopolies) Investigation Commissioner. "The Canadian way consists basically of publicity, followed by polite-mannered but effective prosecution. There's no bullying." Forthwith, for the first time since 1939, he reached out and smacked a little-known Canadian industry with a restraint-of-trade accusation...
...young man, Peacock, the son of a defunct London glass merchant, had become so disgusted with formal schooling that he elected to educate himself. He forthwith concentrated on the Greek, Latin, French, German and Italian classics-and was still at it when the fire broke out at Lower Halliford 60 years later...
...almost providential in its timing. Joyfully, the Security Council dropped the Greek situation to cope with a situation cut more to the U.N. size. With unprecedented speed the Council voted (8-0) a stern resolution: the Council "calls upon" The Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic "to cease hostilities forthwith." It further called upon the combatants to settle their disputes by arbitration...
...Should forthwith be beheaded...