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...above), U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home made Moscow's rough stuff over Berlin Topic A in their first talks with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. As reported by the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, there ensued some uncommonly blunt words among the three statesmen...
Died. Isabel Dodge Sloane, seventyish, blunt and steely auto heiress who became the first lady of U.S. horseracing; following intestinal surgery; in Palm Beach. Daughter of Pioneer Auto Builder John F. Dodge, she shied away from high society to devote her energies to her Brookmeade Stables, won the track's richest laurels with thoroughbreds Cavalcade (1934 Kentucky Derby winner) and Sword Dancer (top money-earner of 1959), but rarely rode herself...
...LeMay. LeMay always says what he thinks-and what he thinks is clear and consistent: U.S. long-range striking power is being neglected. LeMay fought for greater strategic bomber strength as boss of the Strategic Air Command, and last week he took on the Kennedy Administration with gusto. Taking blunt issue with McNamara's proposed 1962-63 budget, LeMay told the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee that the Air Force must have 300 new Minuteman ICBMs instead of the planned 200. LeMay also took issue with McNamara's plan to spend a total...
...speech Thurmond charged that official Administration censors had deleted passages of military officers' speeches "in order to blunt, confuse and pervert the words of those who would inform the public just what the cold war is about...
...Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space in the Berlin corridors had been canceled...