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...however, in the characteristic fashion of diplomats, everybody tried to look the other way, as if nothing had happened. India withdrew, thereby averting a second damaging vote, this time in the General Assembly. The Assembly passed the U.S. "two-sides" plan 43-5, with ten abstaining. Russia was permitted, 55-1, to join the conference "if the other side desires." Menon told the Assembly that he and Lodge were "great friends." Lodge said that Menon was "the great representative of the great leader of a great nation." The U.S. promised to back India's Mme. Pandit as the next...
...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
First Effects. One of the first effects of the Eisenhower Administration's new power policy became evident as long as three months ago, when Interior Secretary Douglas McKay withdrew the Government's opposition to Idaho Power's plan to build three dams on the Snake River in the Northwest. Another result of the new policy is likely to be more far-reaching: all over the U.S., public-power rates may go up. For years, utility men have complained that the Government has underestimated its power costs and pegged its rates at unrealistically low levels, reflecting...
...world trip in 1951 as a missionary ambassador at large (TIME, April 28, 1952) had a highly effective, if unofficial, propaganda value for the U.S. This left the Tammany Democrats out on a limb with a non-Negro candidate. Assemblyman Herman Katz of Manhattan. After some hurried conferences, Katz withdrew...
...Personal Touch. In Akron, the court appointed Attorney Joseph Roulhac to defend Auto Thief Charles Williams, 19, withdrew the appointment when it turned out that it was Attorney Roulhac's own car the defendant had stolen...