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...nationwide TV hookup, Eden tried to allay U.S. misgivings about the coming visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London. He said: "If you have confidence in yourself, if you believe in your own convictions, if you trust your own faith, you shouldn't be afraid to meet, to argue with others...
...Masters, who often spend their football weekends closed off from the student portion of the House, may still have some doubts about the residents' fledgling attempts at adult entertainment. To allay these fears, House members might invite their Master and his wife to attend their room parties on the football weekends ahead. After observing students with their charming dates at close range, the Masters must surely mellow and decide at their next meeting to advance the entertainment deadline on football Saturdays--on a trial basis at least...
Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We are prepared to accept all the facts that you accept here in Britain-taxation and all the rest," he told officials last week, "but we can no longer be just a naval base. We are a mature people who want our full constitutional rights, and you cannot treat...
...during the cold war?" If Daddy was a U.S. diplomat he may have to answer: "I tried to give away butter and eggs." If the small fry thinks this activity unheroic, he will be wrong. Scores of U.S. diplomats are working day and night, trying to allay the raging resentment of allies over the U.S. program for disposing of parts of its $7 billion accumulation of surplus commodities. Last week the storm reached a new intensity when Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson announced a desperate "test." The U.S., under the plan, would export 10 million lbs. of surplus butter for competitive...
...wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend to do some writing." A box wrapped in Manila paper, said to contain Hiss's notes and papers, was loaded into a red Chevrolet convertible. Then, with his family...