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...State Department orders, even ignores them if he feels they are ill advised. "A calculated risk," he says, "is what they say in Washington when they mean, 'I don't think this will work, but don't blame me later.'" On major issues his brisk, elegant telegrams are written more for White House consumption than for the "ice palace," as he sometimes jokingly calls the State Department. The President has blessed Galbraith's independent ways. "It's O.K., Ken," he told the ambassador on one of his reappearances in Washington...
...local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda of the Indian government...
Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...
...last remaining soft spots in the U.S. economy are firming. After months in the horse latitudes, retail and auto sales are scudding along at a brisk pace. Last week came two new harbingers of boom: a sharp drop in unemployment and a pickup in the long-sluggish construction market...
...gathered Caroline into her lap, described how the Pilgrims had landed 28 miles away at Plymouth Rock.* The Kennedy men watched the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions professional football game on television; then, led by Bobby and Ted Kennedy while the President remained idle, they went outside for a brisk period of touch football. The President, his sisters, and brother Ted also drove into Hyannis to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. memorial skating rink; all but Jack put on rented skates and spent an hour playing tag on the ice and practicing figure eights. That evening, after the children...