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Khrushchev trip. Among those ranged against Khrushchev: United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther; International Union of Electrical Workers' James Carey; Papermakers and Paperworkers' Paul Phillips; Maritime Union's Joseph Curran; Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight; Brewery Workers' Karl Feller. Excerpts...
...rolled over to Concord, the state capital, to woo the state's top Republicans. pro-Nixon Senator Styles Bridges and leaning-to-Nixon Governor Wesley Powell. Same day the Rockefeller "Committee of 40" let it be known that it would shortly be expanded to a "Committee of 150." Among the recruits: Dartmouth President Dr. John Sloan Dickey...
...corner. From the U.S., Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected the U.N. to pass this year, is now far from being a sure...
...country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half...
...Summit v. the Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...