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...elect a President, Vice-president, Recording Secretary and Graduate Treasurer whose office it will be to inspect those buildings extant, and to determine which of those now standing can best be torn down...
...score of Polish correspondents who were in Budapest during the Soviet siege and, unable to publish their stories in their own newspapers for fear of offending the Soviet leaders, are now touring the country telling workers, peasants and students what happened in Hungary. Russian street names are torn down, and banners appear: "Stop Soviet Domination." At Bydgoszcz last week an anti-Soviet demonstration ended with an attack on the police station, and for a few hours, until troops were brought in, the rioters controlled the city...
...friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling. Canada's Lester Pearson, who sponsored the resolution setting up UNEF, assured the Assembly that the Menon resolution was "unnecessary." The U.S. delegation, torn between its desire not to damage the Atlantic alliance further and its anxiety to retain new-found U.S. prestige in Asia and Africa, wavered. Finally, in the third U.S. change of heart in two days, Cabot Lodge lukewarmly but conclusively lined the U.S. up behind Menon...
...coming-of-age party for the Duke of Kent included varying descriptions of the "birthday cake," though no cake was served. Editors argue that the public wants to read about human beings rather than the bloodless functionaries described in palace handouts. Britain's newspapers are still widely torn between deference and defiance in chronicling the crown. Last year, the lip-smacking Mirror gave almost a whole page to a peekaboo shot of Princess Margaret, in a low-necked gown, stooping to receive a bouquet. In the venerable Times, the royal cleavage, chastely camouflaged with an artist's airbrush...
...increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were a man with a martial look, but I see you are charming." Added a U Nu aide: "Our press says Viet Nam is war-torn and wretched, but we find a very efficiently run country...