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...members, who had always claimed the foreign company was cheating Iran, reacted violently. The fury of the Majlis' opposition brought forth the new reform government of Premier Ali Razmara, Iran's hardest-working, most honest regime in years. Last week, with defeat inevitable, the Razmara government prudently withdrew the Anglo-Iranian Oil proposal without waiting for a vote...
They danced in and out of each of the alcoves in a way which reminded Vag of the chapter he had read on "The Cyclical Flow of Economic Activity." Then they moved into the main part of the store; the other couples who were dancing withdrew to make room for Vag and Rita. President Conant, as he was retreating to the sidelines with his wife, gave Vag a smiling...
June. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
...leader of the U.N. coalition, was not preparing to defend all of South Korea. But neither was it planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan...
...State Racing Commission (TIME, Dec. 18), the National Association of Racing Commissioners raised an outraged bellow. Last week, Jockey Meade himself got the Florida commission off the spot. In a tearful statement ("I had no idea all the trouble it would cause . . . I'm brokenhearted"), Bad Boy Meade withdrew his application for a Florida license...