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Kennedy and Khrushchev kept their verbal guard high. Twice during the conversations, Kennedy tossed Chinese maxims at his antagonist. He quoted Mao Tse-tung as saying that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"; Khrushchev, straight-faced, denied that the peace-loving Chinese leader could ever have said such a thing. Kennedy also used the old proverb, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step," to make his point that a first step in progress on the road to peace should be made at the nuclear test talks. Struck by Kennedy's Oriental references...
Died. Lieut. General Mikhail V. Khrunichev, 60, barrel-chested former blacksmith who only eight weeks ago was named a Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, boss of a newly created agency charged with mobilizing all applied science; of a heart attack; in Moscow...
...beach colony of squatters at Dollarton, near Vancouver, B.C., and married again, this time an actress-turned-mystery-story writer, Margerie Bonner (The Last Twist of the Knife). The newly weds happily roughed it with coal-oil lamps, driftwood fuel and an outdoor privy. Lowry, a barrel-chested man with piercing blue eyes, drank, swam, drank, sang bawdy Spanish ditties to his own ukulele accompaniment, and drank. When the cottage caught fire, he was badly burned rescuing the entire manuscript of Under the Volcano, which came to be the one and only literary success of Lowry's life...
...Freeman, who sent up Kennedy's controversial bill without really bothering to sound out congressional opinion. Says a House leader: "They didn't do their political homework before they did their legal drafting." Says a White House strategist: "The picture is pretty black. It's a barrel of eels...
Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. More fun than a barrel of money...