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...socialism demanded instant nationalization of industry, instant disarmament, instant betterment for workers and the poor. Yet in Nye, Socialism seemed locked in battle with a vaunting personal ambition. Time and again he reached the brink of power in his party and his country, only to lose the prize by rash behavior that made even his fellow Socialists feel safer in the hands of a competent but unexciting eminence like Clement Attlee...
What stands in Khrushchev's way in Cuba? A rash of opposition groups have sprung up, all taking anti-Communism as their theme. An anti-Castro junta will soon form in Miami (a city called "West Berlin" by its bitter Cuban exiles). One group beams shortwave broadcasts to Cuba nightly at 9 over Boston's WRUL; another, the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery, is headed by four former Castro officials, has cells all over Cuba, and publishes a clandestine newspaper, Rescate (Rescue). Nine small guerrilla bands are operating in Cuba's mountains-though a government patrol last week...
Mueller's views produced a rash of 90 phone calls from viewers protesting his highly colored view of the U.S.'s stand and Lodge's speech. NBC promptly pulled Mueller off the U.N. assignment and sent him back to his regular beat as radio newscaster. The network denied having yielded to pressure: the decision to move Mueller, said William R. McAndrew, vice president in charge of news, had been made "hours before he got on the air." Assessing the whole flap. New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould made a key point: "After seeing Mr. Gromyko assail...
...says Bicks, "is absolutely irrelevant. What is important is the power to control price and exclude competitors." Bicks defeated the proposed merger between Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube not because the two together would have controlled the market but because he felt such action would lead to a rash of mergers that would weaken competition in what is already a highly concentrated industry...
...morning of the home of Lawyer Z. Alexander Looby, 62, one of the two Negro members of Nashville's city council, an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and chief counsel for the 153 students who have been arrested in Nashville's rash of sit-in demonstrations. Said Councilman Looby after the bombing: "This won't stop me." Said redheaded Mayor Ben West to the well-behaved crowd: "As God is my helper, the law is going to be enforced in Nashville...