OLYMPIC /. . - ; ·. · . · ~ • ~ ~ . ::z <, _ , ..!,-"'. The Winter Olympics opened in Italy, today - with much ceremony, but no snow. Italian ° res1dent Gronchi proclaimed - the beginning of the games. Italian s}d.lting champion, Guidi C a roli, brought in the Olympic Torch, and ran with it - around the stadium. In front of the presidential box, * he tripp e d over microphone wires, and fell. Taking a header - but hanging onto the Olympic Torch. Then the march of the athletes - including the R~asians. ~king their first appearance - in the Winter ,) -- O.i.yapics. ._.fhere ... Things would have been made~ ect - by a blizzard. ~~-toA,,,ftf,!!H,~ hasn't been any snow for long da s - in the Alps. ;,,(. b ffie ski runs - icy. A number of accidents already - and there's fear of more. But that remains to be seen - when the games really get going tomorrow. PIWICE In Paris, tonight, Socialist Leader Guy Mollet - 1s trying to line up support in the National A■sembly. FOr a ,J Cabinet- headed by hillaelf, as Premier. Today, Mollet was called by President Rene Coty to take charge or the goverraent - it he can arrange tor a ■aJor1t1 to support him. Allot which - puts a tocus ot interest on the COllllhlnists. Will Nollet, to get a majority - have to go to them? The Socialist leader heads a coalition or his own Party - plus the Radical Socialists, headed by to1'119r Pre■ler Mendes-Prance. 'J'hd two leaders - in a partnership. Mendes-Prance to have a prominent post in any Mollet Cabinet. But the two ~ factions, Socialists plus Radicals - do not number a majority. /\ ~ • I /: so Mollet antendes-France will have to win the s~pport of other groups. They'd like to torm an alliance with...:etheP moderates, but there always remain - the Communists. Who would like to enter a coalition ministry - or the "Popular Front" variety. PIUICE - 2 (r 11e c11riou11 thing ia - that soc 1al111t L e * l l e t 11 a bitter anti-Co.aunist. Having agitated against the Reds - tor years. Once, during a political fracas, C0111Uniat rowdies threw hill out or a window. :a.it now, a tum in the wheel or politics pushes hilll in the d1Nct1on ot thtt Reda. ThOUlh, tonlaht, he's trying to line up support, without any Ca111un1at entangl-nta) SOVDTS We hear-.. Premier Bulganin sugge■ted - that the contents of his letter to President Eisenhower should not be Md public. Not until - the President haa had a chance to study it :J and answer it. ) It is understood, howe•er, that Bulganin, in the message, does not propose a new Meting or the chiefs or state • ., _.. doesn't suggest - another "1U111it" conference. There •a a rwaor •seal that the letter seeks to prepare the way - tor a v1a1t or top level IN■lin leader, to thls country. Bulganin and Xhr\lshchev - paying ua a Yillt. Tboee two fellow traveler, - who ■ade the big propqanda tour ot southern Aa1a. This report was taken to the State DepartMnt, where a spokeuan - declined to ■ake any c01111ent. worked aut new sugges in the d i s ~ t business. / Urging Moscow to agree - to a reductlo !Y'" of the vast military , / •an~r of Soviet Russia. The~y the plans have been SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA The news, in recent months, has been telling about - Alllerican visitors in Soviet Russia. Ooing places - and interviewing people. So how would you like to sit in on a call - paid by the American Editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica? To - the editors of the new Soviet Encyclopedia? The Britannica editor is tol'ller Senator Willi• Benton ot Co!Dl8Ct1~ -~4~~~~ - 11W _/,c--. ~ - ~~ ....... - . New York Ttaee" Telkt to the Soviet editors, he aaked the11 - \unbluedT about their editorial principle. How objectiYe! Howw■■t••WI ~~~✓~- • a , Chief Bdi tor Vedeneky replied - ' C - ~ I t 1, forth in a decree by the So•iet Council ot Nini1ter1. Aa tollow1: "The second edition ot the great Soviet Encyclopedia," says the decree, "should elucidate the world-historical victories of Socialism in our country.. It must show the superiority or socialist culture, over the culture of the capitalist world." To which the Russian Chief Editor added: "All articles are, of course, written traa the position or our SOVIIT ENCYCWPEDIA - 2 world outlook - Marxis■, Leninis■ J" What an encyclopedia! k),w,l • The first edition or the s oviet Encyclopedia waa begun in Nineteen TWenty-S1.x. Betore it was c011plete, the great purge trials had occurred - Stalin extel"lllinating his ene■1ea. The encyclopedia - in disgrace. SOiie of ita editors - executed. Others - thrown into prison. Editing an encyclopedia can be dangerou.1 buaineaa - in SOYiet Ru111a. In the Sec~ition, tor ex•ple, the preaent d•••• editors had included a higbl.J flattering article on Berta. But then Beria tell, and wu exec11ted. Whlre11pon lnatructlona were aent to purchuera ot the enc7clopedla - to take a pair or aciaaora and cut out the part about Berta. ~ ~-lt..t-~ ~., J;t-~~~ ~ - -._/ ~~ ~ ) JULI - Here"s an oddity. Imagine a housewife going to the grocery store, and saying: "Give me a loaf or 1111k." So the grocer, behind the counter, wraps up a loaf or milk, and hands it to her. Actually, the dialogue should be - in Russian. 11111111 , tbey~aelling milk by the loaf, at a collective tal'II in A Yelmtak. Frozen milk. invented some new kind of deep treeie? No, not at all. 1, Yakutsk, in Siberia, the t•perature la - titty-etght below. 5c, - ~ ■ilk Just treezea • naturally. talaatak z Kat~•• awn daap tNeza.~ µ- ~ ~ ~~w-a,~y~-to INDIA Today was the day or big parades - in India. The great sub-continent - celebrating the sixth aMiversary of Indian independence. Fr011 Darjeeling to Cape C011orin - pageants with arching crowds, blaring bands, and gaudy floats. And, or course - elephants. In New Delhi - an elephant problem. There, Priae M1n1ater Nehru reviewed the parade, and the arranae•nt wu - to have Jet plane, fly down the line or march. But the tear wu the roaring or Jets ■iaht staapede the elephants. Al&r11ing - aquadrone of / hi --- ... u) elephants charging into a crowd or a ■illion or 10. They solved that - by careful tilling. Taking the elephants out or the parade - at the t111e the Jets roared OYer. Then bringing back - the gayly decorated pachydel'III. There was - another kind or celebration - at Madras. Where a huge hall was J81118d - with Indian Christiana. Listening - to Allerican Evangelist Billy Orab•. Preaching - a Goepel senaon. BillY oraham is touring India, and attracting Indian , IIDIA-2 Christians by the tens ot thousands. ~oday, he had a questton-and-anner session, w11h s0118one in the crowd asking: "Ia 1:t possible to be a good Christian - and not go to church?" "I will say," Billy Grah• replied neatly, "that 1t ta possible to be a Christian and not go to church. aat 1t 11 tapoeetble to be a good Chrtettan - and not go to church.~ YtJCA!AN A siege is on - in the city of Merida, capital of Yucatan. An academic affair - seventy students holding out in a building of the old university.{sllPP8'1Nled t,y foreee or poitee, At the same tille, crowds ot other students were ator11it11 about the streets of Merida, todQ - in angry de■onatrationa. They were not 1n support ot the student• - - < besieged at the university. It •a the o~r way around - theJ,{N on the other aide or the quarrel. The trouble in Yucatan 11 over a strike ot uni•ereltr t e a c ~ dnanding a pay hike. The strike on tor a couple ot 11ontti1. '1oting by stu<lents - during the past tive days. One faction - supporting the teachers - and seizing contro l ot the university. Other students - backing the local goverment, which has been trying to presene order. 'l'heire the ones - marching through the streets. Well yucatan is noted tor • faaous Mayan ruina. And the Mayans; in their lost civilization - would be surprised the ent1eth nt _ c01l licationa ,at the Un1vera1t, ot 'Be AIR PORCE Goodbye - to the B-36. That•a what the P ir Poree 11 now saying. those new In April, they'll begin replacing the B-36 - with" ,Jet b011bera, the B-52. Although - it will take several years to equip all the bomber wings with six tundred and r1tt1 ■11et an hour Jets. Well, the B-36 haa been a · controveraial plane all along. Never in any war - but in a . lot ot argu■ent. Denounced bJ the Navy - as a "billion dollar blunder". Defended bJ the Air Poree - aa an atom bomb carrw;, with a deterrent ettect on Coauniat aggression. But now the Air Porce~~T"Ooodbye B-36~ ,.._ A President Eisenhower sent Congre1a, today - a federal proposal in behalf of public health in this country. A two h&lndred and fifty ■illlon dollar prograa - for the conatNction or •dical schools , and federal grant, tor medical re1earch. Qoverraent aid tor hospital construction - and a t1Te year training proll'• for mraea. The President tells Congre11 tbat there are "1eriou1 1hortap1" ot phyaiciana and mr1e1. And - an urgent need tor ~ f •a1cal reeearch. SALi - A medal was presented in Washington, today - with stately ceremony. One hllndred h igh level personalities in governaent and science - applauding. A special Congreaeional fo r gold meda~ .,_ sscatua - te Dr. Jonas E. s ~ lk. Developer - , , A A of the ant1-pol1o taccine. .. . • • o tri ■-~e u ■ ,-.k t lcCARTHY Senator McCarthy was a w1tne11 at a New York trial, today. The trial ot Paul H. Hughe■, a Washington private investigator, accused ot collecting more than ten thousand dollars, under talse pretmaea. The story is that lllghea posed as an 1nveat1gator tor Ile McCartby Caa1ttee. J.M ot t1ng - to ant1-llcCarttw people. Sa,ing - he waa di1gu1ted with NcCarttw •thoda. And ottering evidence - q&inat the NcCartbJ eo.1ttee. He approached the political organization C · &lled - Aller1cana Por De■ocratic Action. Alao - a Waahington newspaper, the Poat and Tiaea-Herald. Presenting - ant1-McCarttw docwaenta. Which, later, turned out to be talae. But he got "expense• ■oney - to the tune of ■ore than ten thousand bucks. Today, on the witness stand, Senator McCarthy teat1t1ed - that Hughes waa never employed by the McCarthy C011111ttee. When the defendant was pointed oot, McCarthy said - M r eover he denied - that the he did not recognize him. 0 ' IIOCAR'fllY - 2 1 1gn1.turea on two docwaenta were h1a. Docuaenta - which Blllbe• claiJled had been ataned bJ Nc8arthy. At Paterson, New Jerse1, last night, two ■en went into a tavem and had "a couple of beers". After theJ bad left, the tavern keeper happened to look at a ■orning newspaper, in which - he aaw a picture ot the Indiana killer, Lealie Irvin. Wanted - tor aix ■urder1. A t:u11t1ve - after , . e1caplD1 tr011 an Indiana prison. Pl'Olll the plctl.lN, the ta••m keeper recoifllzed - one ot the two ■en who had c~into h1a place. He aaya he I a sure - that one ot thell ••• the killer. So that haP nOlf toc1111ed the llanhunt - on New JeraeJ and New York City. The belief beiDI - that Irvin 11 hiding out in the crowded aetropolia. IDS ANGELES • It's unusual to find a great city tied up. by rain. But that was the story of Loa Angeles this evening. Soutbem California - having a plague of storms tor weeks. The woret one - today. The worst, in fact - in twenty years. Seven inches or rain pouring down on the 11etropolie ot Southern Calltornla/ Streets - tlooded.~en tundred peopl~\ to nacuate their hoaea. f1vel'JWhere . . . ln downtown Loll err1cea, 1tore1 and tactortea clo1ed earl1 thla at-ternoon. To enable e■pl01ee1 to pt hCIIN before dark - a10111 atreets and roads deep in water. There waa a wild stampede ot horaea, in M1aa1, toda,. 1early one hundred thoroughbreda - racing in a panic throu.lh tt"\'treets. At._ Tropical Park racetrack, a tire broke out thl1 afternoon. No racing prograa there - but a large TIU11ber ot hones were a tabled at • Tropical Perk - tor the race,, whioh l!l, I ((__.,, a are on, at Hialeah. M;t'n barning barn, acae ..._ thoroqhbred• 11111 were lost. Plue - nee pins 10 rapidlJ. · Other barns were tlireatened, and stable boya took the horaea out. 'l'he anillala - terrttled by the nearbJ tlre. Out ot control - at•pedlng, tar and wide, throllp the 1treeta · or 1111111. PAUL WEBB Would you like to laugh -- laugh and laugh? The famed primitive artist, Paul Webb, who does the hill-billy pictures in Esquire, has an exhibition here in New York. At the Society of Illuetratora on east 63rd Street. The first picture is or Paw, asleep 1n a double bed. With a big bear asleep beside him, and two ot the lountain Boys, looking in the window - one saying to tbl other:- "A• ahore hope Paw wakes up tirst in the Spring!" And as you go around the room you get laugh attar e laugh atter laugh -- which• all need at tlllea, don•t we Henry?