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...Colonel Joop Warouw, Indonesia's military attache in Peking, and Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, commander of the rebellious Northern Celebes area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded him I once saved his life in Surabaya during the war against the Dutch, but told him: 'You must make a decision...
...shot: "John, you give us the learned and scholarly explanation-either that, or give us your own." The panel differed in its advice to a woman who wrote in about a semantic quibble with her husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that she get rid of her husband." He dubbed Professor Evans "Bergie." After the guest expert, in the manner of his own show, kept asking whether letter writers were "married or single." Brown challenged him on his "obsession" with sex. Retorted Groucho: "It's not an obsession; it's a talent." As Evans...
...Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake out the old Stalinists and strengthen his leadership, has bogged down into a sort of cataloguing census. The blighting bureaucrats Gomulka hoped to get rid of have clung like leeches to their party membership while the workers who were supposed to be the base of the new party have streamed out. Disenchanted intellectuals by the dozen have torn up their party cards. Of the 14,000 students at the Warsaw Polytechnic, a rallying point...
...Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that democracy holds the brightest promise. And the U.S., deeply involved in developing Venezuela's fabulous oil reserves, would be free of the necessity of doing business...
...result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist T. S. Painter in his place. The American Association of University Professors censured the administration, and when famed Folklorist J. Frank Dobie went on protesting the Rainey firing, the regents found a way to get rid of him, too. By the time the present president, Logan Wilson, took over in 1953, the university was still suffering from the dispute...