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With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...
...long deadlock between the U.S. and Bolivia's revolutionary government. Ever since the RFC stopped buying tin in quantity in 1951 because it thought the price (up from around 80? to $2 a Ib.) was exorbitant, Bolivia has suffered severe economic cramps (TIME, May 5, 1952 et seq.). Negotiations with the U.S. for a new, long-term contract were not helped when Bolivia nationalized its tin mines and offered to pay off investors, many of them in the U.S., at only one-third of the value of the tin companies...
...world (TIME, Jan. 19). Onassis has had six tankers, five Victory ships and one Liberty taken over. The group of corporations that ex-Congressman Joe Casey and Newbold Morris helped set up, and that touched off a congressional investigation of all the sales (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.) have had five ships seized...
...endless ferryboat ride" was over. Last week, after 296 round trips, Michael Patrick O'Brien, the "stateless Irishman" who had been forced to ride the Hong Kong-Macao ferry continuously since Sept. 18, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), was whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where...
...home in Israel, where they will receive a French education and be "informed" of the Jewish religion of their dead parents. Before leaving, Mme. Rosner dropped her charges against the Roman Catholic priests, nuns and laymen accused of spiriting the children to Spain (TIME, March 16 et seq...