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Lacking either a Devereux or Edwardian subtlety, youngsters at San Diego high and junior high schools have found a way to be highly explicit. A girl arranges the sword-shaped pins on her cardigan in a variety of patterns: 1) horizontally parallel (come on, she's unattached); 2) parallel, but at an angle (she has a boy friend, but he's not a steady); 3) swords in a V (she's interested in going steady); 4) crossed swords (poison, she's got a steady); and 5) single vertical sword (get lost, she's married...
More and more, Disarmament's Stassen has been crossing swords on policy with the State Department. Item: last December, while Secretary Dulles was in Europe, Stassen called a press conference and suggested, to the consternation of Dulles and U.S. allies alike, that both the U.S. and Russia might withdraw their forces from Europe. Last week Stassen and Dulles dropped in at the White House for a chat with President Eisenhower. When they came out, Dulles' sword was sheathed, Stassen was virtually disarmed. Announced Dulles: the President had directed Stassen henceforth to operate under policy guidance of the Secretary...
...Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...
...India, where he recently demonstrated to the locals the military art of bayoneting (TIME, Feb. 11), Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov swung a sword at his longtime bond with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked by newsmen for his view of Ike's new Middle East doctrine, Marshal Zhukov declared that though the new policy may not be Eisenhower's own idea, "it is a step toward war." Then he said deliberately: "Eisenhower is my old friend as a soldier [but] I do not know what is left of him as a soldier-whether he is still the same...
...hero. But of De Lesseps' effect on his time and on history, there is no doubt. The world still struggles clumsily with the problems he posed, and still has need of men like De Lesseps, who always "expected to meet friends rather than enemies, yet was always sword in hand, ready to defend a personal faith: that men were fundamentally good, that good prevails over evil, that therefore war at last will yield to peace...