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...convicted second-string Communist leaders came before him for sentencing last week, New York's Federal Judge Edward J. Dimock was unable to resist a bit of grandstanding from the bench. He asked: "If something like spending the rest of your life in Russia could be worked out as a substitute for prison, would that interest you at all?" The Communists fervently refused-not without some grandstanding of their own. Cried Big Red Hen Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: the suggestion was "comparable to asking a Christian if he wanted to go to heaven right away . . . We feel we would...
Rubber for Rice. Three non-Communist nations resist U.S. pressure. Egyptian cotton deliveries to Chinese Communist ports doubled in the past year; Pakistan's jumped from $45 million in 1951 to $54 million in the first six months of 1952. Most alarming of all, Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth, recently signed a five-year agreement to send 250,000 tons of rubber to the Red mainland. The U.S. had offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition...
Arden-Clarke's gamble seems to be paying off. Prison life sobered Nkrumah, who was never a glutton for punishment; responsibility awed his adolescent party. Nkrumah could not resist wearing a Nehru-style cap with the letters P.G. (for Prison Graduate) embroidered on the side, but he pumped the governor's hand and agreed that since the constitution has made him the virtual boss of the Gold Coast, he might as well give it a trial. "I am a friend of Britain," he piously announced in his first big speech. "I desire for the Gold Coast the status...
...horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas, in 1938, he saw a blast of well gas kill his brother Floyd. But the dangerous game held a lure that Myron could not resist...
...have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...