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...informal meetings, delegates of the Big Five had considered -among others-the name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about...
...governments . . ." said they in a joint communiqué, "were in full agreement that, in the event of aggression in Europe, the resulting conflict could hardly remain local in character." There was firm talk of British military aid for Belgrade, and Tito volunteered a broad hint that he would try to patch up the festering relations between his regime and the Catholic Church...
...Malenkov's cold-war council, only one-Czechoslovakia's Klement Gottwald-had ever been tinged with even a hint of Tito-like, nationalist aspirations, and that was long ago. The issue of his loyalty quickly became irrelevant: he took cold at the funeral, went home and died...
...Atomic Age. When will such an atomic engine be ready? Last week the Newport News shipyard, which is working on the supercarrier Forrestal, gave a possible hint. It took ads asking for men "interested in a career in atomic energy." It looked as if the shipbuilding company hopes to land a contract for another carrier of the Forrestal class, to be powered by an atomic engine. Price evidently thinks the atomic age of power is close. This week he announced that Westinghouse will spend $2,000,000 to build, on an abandoned golf course five miles northeast of Pittsburgh...
...like evenness, or take on a raucous bite in a fast rhythm. In a melancholy mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that no competitor quite duplicates...