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...Your coverage of late happenings in dynamite-laden trouble spots (i.e., South Africa, Islam, etc.) is most commendable, and one sure sign that everybody with "pull" is not asleep-although the vast majority of our leaders and publications seem to be held fast in the arms of Morpheus...
...billion-$71 million more than the total U.S. Marshall Plan aid to France. Whether the U.S. likes it or not, the U.S. is very much in the "dirty war" itself; while that war continues to drain from France what the U.S. puts in, France cannot be expected to pull her full weight in NATO. In Indo-China the battle lines of Asia and Europe merge. This is the crucial point which Douglas MacArthur fought to prove, i.e., that Communism cannot go unchecked in Asia and still be defeated in Europe...
...first step toward true space navigation. A small man-made moon, revolving on a circular orbit high above the earth's atmosphere, would be a handy spot from which to start a space voyage. Because the satellite would already be supported against the earth's gravitational pull by the centrifugal force of its rapid motion, only moderate power would be needed to launch the spaceship from it. Since there would be no atmosphere, the spaceship would not even have to be streamlined...
Thus he was first with the story that the A.F.L. had secretly decided to pull out of the United Labor Policy Committee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For Stark, the scoop was a valedictory. Last week, after 28 years in the rough & tumble of the union beat, ailing Reporter Stark, 62, left the Times's Washington bureau for a month's vacation. On his return he will take up the easier chore of writing Times editorials and interpretive articles...
...debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...