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Ohio's dignified Senator John Bricker walked briskly toward the tiled subway under the Senate Office Building. With him was J. H. Macomber, Expenditures Committee clerk. As they approached the little monorail, open-top trolley that trundles Senators to the Capitol, a shot split the air. Bricker and Macomber whirled. About 15 steps behind them, they saw a grey, sharp-faced little man frantically breaking open a smoking, single-shot target pistol to reload...
...Europe, split by Molotov, now line up? Russia herself had shut herself out of the European economy since the Revolution, but most of the nations that had become Soviet satellites had formerly had economic ties with the rest of Europe. These eight countries have a total population of 87 million. The 16 European countries represented at Paris have a total population of 218 million...
Last week the Indians were tussling with the complexities brought by the partition of India. They agreed on one major problem: partition of the Indian Army. In the first stage it will be split on the basis of religious communities, with Moslem-majority units going into the Pakistan forces, non-Moslem majority units into the Indian Army. Next April, each soldier will be allowed to transfer to the army of the state where his religion is predominant...
Judged by the advance notices of the Right v. Left split in the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, its 14th annual convention in Sioux City, Iowa last week was to be a finish fight. As it turned out, both Right and Left concentrated, for different reasons, on removing garrulous Guild President Milton Meadowcroft Murray. They succeeded...
...Guild's Right-Left split remained unhealed after Sioux City, but it looked as if Harry Martin would be top dog in the race to be president. And there was no doubt now who was the Guild's strong man. He was burly, closemouthed, onetime Make-Up Editor (Oakland. Calif. Post-Enquirer) Sam Eubanks...