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In an afternoon session, Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and his staff briefing team explained the mission of NATO and its capacity for preventing aggression.
No Paper Tiger. Dulles went upstairs to a room crowded with 42 correspondents, adjusted his steel-rimmed glasses, and read the Newport Warning straight through. Then he made the message even plainer in a "background briefing" under the standard ground rule that he would be quoted only as an unnamed...
All the quiz shows' share-of-audience Trendex ratings fell drastically last week ("21 Skiddoo!" chortled Variety). And to nobody's great surprise, the $64,000 Challenge joined the line-up of suspects when a Tennessee minister announced that the toughest part of a four-ply question had...
From Brisbane, Australia, Linehan caught the transport Monterey for the U.S., spent 3½ days in San Francisco briefing U.S. intelligence, settled in California, and tried to forget his painful experiences. He has never had a chance to forget: 17 years later, onetime Guerrilla Linehan, now 61, is still being...
What the Israelis particularly hoped for were positive assurances, in writing and publicly pronounced, that Washington and London would work to guarantee Israel's borders, and would come to Israel's aid if it was attacked. At week's end Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister...