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...could hardly be otherwise. Delegates from 44 nations had sat down at a green baize-covered table to work out a democratic formula for relief to war-torn countries containing 500 million people, where human wreckage is on a scale almost too huge to conceive...
...peacetime Russia. Peter and Elena Ignatov led a quiet, homey life. But the war altered all that. Killing has become their trade; they pursue it with the matter-of-factness with which Peter once tinkered with engines and Elena mended her sons' torn garments. Today, Peter's is one of Russia's busiest guerrilla "armies"; Elena is one of his killers...
Just six days before the Oct. 31 coal-strike deadline, WLB had brusquely torn up John Lewis' proposed Illinois mine contract (TIME, Oct. 25). In its place, WLB offered a contract so tortured in its reasoning, so filled with economic Greek, that it took WLB's own statisticians 48 hours to decipher it, and put them through Einsteinian mathematics to justify it. Yet WLB's contract came within $2.50 a week of giving John Lewis' miners what they would have got under the Illinois contract: a weekly wage of $55.50 compared to $58-$10 more than...
Congressmen were torn between their belief in fiscal watchdogging and the demands of their business constituents for speedy conversion. They respectfully pressed GAO Boss Warren for his views. He admitted the compelling need for speed in terminating war contracts.* He also admitted that GAO could not possibly be fast enough 1) with its present funds and staff or 2) under his original suggestion that a meticulous audit of every item was necessary. The Army admitted that it had made some mistakes, would be bound to make some more, and that some war contractors would inevitably get away with modified murder...
Last week Episcopalians were slightly torn by unity. Before the Episcopal Church's 54th Triennial General Convention, meeting in Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (no Episcopal church was large enough to hold the 750 Bishops, priests and laymen), were two reports from the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. For six years this Commission has pondered with unflagging leisureliness the question of uniting Episcopalians with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The majority report (twelve signers) favored unity; the minority report (three signers) opposed...