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Secretary General U Thant has tried to get a $6,300,000 allocation to expand the General Assembly Hall and the office space for member nations; but to no avail. The shoe-thumpers are having their revenge in the appropriations committee; and the kindly Burmese may have to ask the most recent additions to his flock to bring camp-stools. Or perhaps he could encourage more of those important conversations in the corridors one reads so much about...
...interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...
Piel also discounted the pre-emptive strike, or "retaliate in advance," as an irrational strategy. Despite our over-whelming nuclear superiority, "counterforece" attacks on hardened targets--aimed at knocking out the enemy's deterrent--"are of little avail." They would require pin-point location of the target, a continent away; fantastically accurate guidance of missiles; and a strike capacity with "the astronomical dimension of 20,00 megatons...
...Griffin, it was all to no avail. Georgians last week turned down his candidacy by a margin that must have made the state's Ku-Kluxers turn as white as their sheets. The winner, by a vote of 462,065 to 305.777, and next Governor of Georgia, was State Senator Carl Sanders...
...clash with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick over the draft-choice plan for stocking the new American League clubs in Washington and Los Angeles. Veeck argued that the plan unfairly forced the old clubs to choose between keeping their veteran stars or their prize minor leaguers. But to no avail. "Let us be fair," writes Veeck. "Ford Frick does not try to do the wrong thing. Given the choice between doing something right or something wrong Frick will usually begin by doing as little as possible. It is only when he is pushed to the wall for a decision that...