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...talk turned to East-West trade, with Khrushchev blandly insisting that the Soviet Union does not use trade as a political weapon. A few nights before, when a second-string Russian bureaucrat denied that the Russians attach strings to their trade offers, Humphrey retorted: Why, I've just come from a country [Finland] where [trade] not only has strings; it's a political noose." Humphrey asked Khrushchev for specific facts began pressing his own statistics on Khrushchev, who shrugged: "I am not expert and there are details I am not familiar with. He promised to bring in Trade...
...House Committee members trundle about alternately beseeching and strong-arming recalcitrant donors, it is time to reconsider the value of House dues. Since the functions which dues once financed have now become essential to the success of the System, and since the donors no longer attach any value to their contributions, the University would do well to provide its own support for the marginal, but increasingly valuable House activities. The expense would not be a staggering one, but the relief it would bring to House committees, House Masters and even House members would be more than commensurate. Dues...
Iraq's Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem abruptly summoned his military attaché from Cairo for emergency consultations. The Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram accused the Israelis of mobilizing and massing troops on the Jordanian frontier, and Cairo's Al Gumhuria. which never seems to get its history straight, added: "Once more we'll fight, and again...
...Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government reacted sharply by kicking both out of the country...
This system, worked out theoretically, worked like a charm in actual fact, the Navy announced last week. It was tested last July over the coast of Georgia. The usual tactic was to attach a package of 1-2 Ibs. of carbon black to a static line and toss it out of an airplane flying through the top of a cloud. When the slack snapped out of the line, the package broke open, releasing the carbon black. Seven clouds out of seven tested dissipated entirely in 2½ to 20 minutes...