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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath Dignity. To calm fears among U.S. allies that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. might get together on a Big Two deal, the President made it clear at his special press conference last week that his discussions with Khrushchev would be "exploratory rather than any attempt at negotiation." At the NATO Council meeting in Paris, the U.S.'s NATO Ambassador Randolph Burgess assured the allies that the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings would not be a Big Two summit conference...
...Germany's reunification: "There are no hopes of unifying East and West Germany in the near future, consequently one must proceed from the real state of affairs, from the fact that there are two German states." Answering another question, he magnanimously assured everyone that Russia will attempt no change in Berlin's status so long as talks continue...
Soustelle is still the living symbol of the French rightists' "No surrender" policy in Algeria, and as such he stands at the top of the Algerian rebels' "elimination list." Lightly wounded in an assassination attempt last fall (TIME, Sept. 29), he lives under the constantly watchful eye of bodyguards. When he leaves his office on Paris' Rue Oudinot, his movements are signaled ahead by a succession of handclaps; at the ministry entrance and on surrounding street corners, men armed with submachine guns spring to the alert. "Just like a Chicago gangster, eh?" he grinned to a visitor...
...only three. Norwegians were quick to point out that "all" flags are flown on the anniversaries of such great Norwegian authors as Ibsen and Bjornson. Said the newspaper Dagbladet: "Hamsun will go down in history as one of the greatest authors. But . . . any attempt to explain away his conduct during the war would be wrong and in bad taste...
Alfred began writing plays when he was still working for a little magazine at Brooklyn College. The drive to attempt play-writing came from an interest in dialogue which he found creeping into his poetry...