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...this suspense Dulles trod warily between firmness and non-provocation as he sought to keep the cease-fire alive. Specifically last week the U.S.: <¶Suspended U.S. Navy escorting of Chinese Nationalist convoys to Quemoy-a Red China cease-fire condition-figuring that the Chinese Nationalists had all but licked the supply problems (see FOREIGN NEWS) and could well do the job on their...
...Olivier last year turned down a Hollywood offer of $250,000 for one picture, trod the boards in The Entertainer for ?45 ($126) a week...
Having survived 33 appeals for confidence and nearly 16 months in office, Premier Guy Mollet trod his way to the end last week with a certain nonchalance. "No regrets," he told one of his executioners, "now I can take a rest. They can nail me up on the wall like a trophy, but I won't be used as a doormat." In his conduct of the war in Algeria the militancy of Mollet's patriotism had offended the left, and now that the war bill had to be paid the right was appalled by his Socialism...
...stage long trod by waltzing countesses and czardas-dancing gypsies a girl in rundown shoes and a beat-up hat marched to the footlights and belted out a number called Alles aus Naturverstand (meaning "Everything by Common Sense"). Americans in the audience recognized it as Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. Annie Get Your Gun had settled down in Vienna, and its arrival had precipitated another battle in the running musical war between partisans of old-fashioned Viennese operetta and fans of new-style American musical comedy...
...news analysts are supposed to interpret the meaning of the news without giving their own opinions. By ignoring this lofty impossibility CBS newsmen have won more radio and TV awards than the staff of any other network. Last week, by zealously chasing the mirage, CBS trod heavily on the toes of its foremost commentators, Eric Sevareid, 44, and Edward R. Murrow...