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Taft would not withdraw from Europe; he would keep there the six U.S. divisions already committed, and he would provide arms for allies. He would stay with the U.N. He would strive for a truce in Korea, then arm the South Koreans and pull out U.S. troops. But his basic point was that the U.S. could not match Russia in ground-force manpower. Nor must the U.S. "admit that our safety depends on begging bayonets from Germany or from France." The U.S. must be strong in its own right, and such strength lay, above all, in "control...
...they've just seen the Red Sox front office pull what may well turn into the steal of the decade. Yet, judging from the reports in the local press, the Big Trade has won Messrs. Cronin and Boudreau nothing but razzberries...
Four months ago, the disillusioned big merchant companies decided to pull out. The result was the decision announced last week by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: British merchants would liquidate assets in China worth more than $840 million. They hoped their employees would be let out of the country...
Lola Flores, a dark-haired, deep-bosomed Spanish flamenco dancer with a throaty voice and glittering black eyes, is the current rage of Mexico City. Getting a table for her 2 a.m. show at the fashionable, mirror-ceilinged Club Capri requires luck and pull plus about 150 pesos ($16.40) per person cover charge, a record price for a Mexico City night spot. At the Iris Theater, where Lola dances before her nightclub show, tickets are priced at 15 pesos, but scalpers get as much...
...Zipper Corp., which has been turning out a new nonjamming zipper for wholesalers at the rate of 100,000 a day, will sell it at retail for the first time this summer. The "trolley" can be removed from the tracks simply by pressing down on the tab used to pull it. Thus, any material that has been caught up can easily be freed...