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...Bourguiba hit it off splendidly during Bourguiba's state visit to Washington last week. Though he is something of a hypochondriac, Bourguiba diplomatically disregarded a sore throat to sit bareheaded with Kennedy to watch the drill teams-and picked up a touch of bronchitis that forced him to cancel trips to Texas and Tennessee...
Some of the best U.S. friends in Latin America were made nervous and cautious. One indication of hidden danger was in Venezuela, where President RÓmulo Betancourt, champion of the anti-Castro left, felt forced to cancel a session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America, scheduled to meet at the volatile University of Caracas. And to many of the credulous among the Latin American peasantry, as among Cubans themselves, the bearded Fidel Castro now seemed more of a hero, able to stand up to the Yanquis...
President Kennedy's decision to cancel the development of a nuclear-powered military airplane brought howls of consternation from several airframe, engine and electronics manufacturers. In a terse paragraph in his defense budget message to Congress, the President favored dropping the 15-year-old project because, although $1 billion has been lavished on the program, "the possibility of achieving a militarily useful aircraft in the foreseeable future is still very remote." The U.S., he went on, would have to spend at least another billion "to achieve the first experimental flight." The President proposed to shunt "the entire subject matter...
...planes probably came from the Belgians, who pay no more attention than does the U.A.R. to the U.N. ban on "unilateral" aid. But the delivery was clouded with mystery. Katangese officials said that they had meant to cancel the order and that delivery of the planes at this time was "a terrible mistake." The Stratocruiser was unmarked except for its serial number, which traced back to a New York charter outfit called Seven Seas Airlines, Inc. The company denied that it owned the Boeing, said it was engaged only in a food airlift to the Congo...
Vandiver's way out is a proposed state constitutional amendment, guaranteeing "freedom of association" to replace the present clause requiring segregation. With other new laws, the effect would be to cancel compulsory school attendance, open the way to state grants for segregated private schools. Public schools would be integrated. If Georgia does not cure "the cancerous growth" of its school crisis, warned Vandiver, "it will blight our state." With the sad stories of Little Rock and New Orleans on their minds, the lawmakers seem likely to back Vandiver. The next step-hopefully-would be smooth sailing when Atlanta...