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...know. But I think he has marked himself as very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc." (Replied Nkrumah diplomatically: "Mr. Herter was the last person from whom I would expect such a remark.") Herter went on to blast the Soviet attack on the U.N. as "an all-out attack, a real declaration of war against the structure, personnel and location of the United Nations," and later U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth took the floor in the Assembly to rebut Khrushchev in the same vein...
MUSICALS: In an all-out attempt to recreate the box-office wonder of My Fair Lady, T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King is being stage' tooled as Camelot. As with Fair Lady, Frederick Loewe is the composer, Alan Jay Lerner the book adapter and lyricist, Moss Hart the director, Julie Andrews one of the stars (Nov. 17). Irma la Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light...
Dick Nixon applied for the job, got the nod from the committee of 100, and plunged into the campaign with pile-driving energy, $5,000 in savings-and an all-out assist from Pat. He won in a breeze over the New Dealing Democratic incumbent. Congressman Jerry Voorhis. Nixon's headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate...
Polaris qualifies as the ideal deterrent: an all but invulnerable striking force capable of surviving a sneak attack-a mobile, dispersible, devastating guarantee of destruction to any enemy tempted to touch off an all-out assault. With Polaris submarines at sea, no enemy can possibly figure on knocking out U.S. power with a strike at SAC airfields and missile bases. In the long pull of cold war, Polaris will relax pressures on overseas allies, some uneasy at the provocative presence of U.S. missile sites. Polaris itself is listed as an intermediate range missile, but Polaris-plus-submarine bids...
...essential to any U.N. operation," he suggested that neutrals and other nations not involved in the cold war should take part. For transport and food he was prepared to call on any and all of the U.N.'s 83 members, and the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge gave all-out support...