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...some of these little stink bombs which Senator Saltonstall smelled. Some other equally respectable "sponsors" of the Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
...dispute concerned all nations. Vishinsky insisted that the South-West Africa question be excluded from discussion. After the U.S.'s new chief delegate, Senator Warren Austin, watchfully assisted by Adviser John C. Ross (whom one newsman called the delegation's "invisible quarterback"), made a placatory speech, Vishinsky withdrew his objections...
...Soviet Russia withdrew all opposition in the Assembly's steering committee to five items proposed for the agenda, three of them affecting the veto right of the five great powers...
Asked whether he, as a scientist, knew of any reason why the B.S. might be preferred he replied that he knew of none unless it concerned engineers--a qualification he cheerfully withdrew on learning that the Departments of Engineering and Applied Physics favored...
...across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...