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...name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about for a few hours to see if there might be anything unacceptable...
...Eared. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., telephone service in the state capitol was halted while fumigators got rid of the bedbugs in the main switchboard...
William Jansen, New York City's Superintendent of Schools, told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in Washington that he had been fighting to rid his schools of Communists, but that "we are by no means satisfied that we have cleared up the situation." Since 1950, said he. 81 teachers have been fired or suspended. He added: "We have about 180 more under investigation...
Blundell has advised farmers to "get rid of all Kikuyu or at least never to let a Kikuyu enter the farmhouse after dark. I've been told this was drastic, brutal and unnecessary. But the Mau Mau oath has a terrible binding power. One Kikuyu who had worked on a farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey...
...President Kinsey Robinson of Washington Water Power, Washington's second-biggest private utility, refused to give in. First he turned to American Power & Light, which owned Washington Water Power and which, under the holding companies' "death sentence," had to get rid of its subsidiary. A P & L had made a tentative deal to sell Washington Water Power to the P.U.D.s. But Robinson, who started as a lineman and spent 14 years building his company, fought his bosses' plan. He won the backing of A.P. & L. s biggest stockholders, who persuaded the company to turn down the P.U.D.s...