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...next morning Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria called Dulles' proposed internationalization "a 1956 term for piracy." At the meeting that evening Nasser took just 40 minutes to reject the plan, as he had said he would. He was candid, businesslike. "What is your problem?" he asked. "Freedom of navigation? I'm ready to discuss that. Tolls? I'm ready to discuss that. The British press charges I'm trying to build an empire? We can discuss that too if you want-but I will not discuss Egyptian sovereignty...
Died. Rupert Hughes, 84, thickset, jowly Jack-of-all-literary-trades, who wrote some 50 books, including a candid, controversial biography, George Washington (three volumes, 1926, '27, '30) that "attacked the fables about him . . . cheap substitutes for great achievements," cranked out dozens of short stories, movie scripts, plays, musical compositions; in Los Angeles...
...Your candid and informative Aug. 20 sketch of Duke Ellington is heartening to many talented and aspiring Americans...
...reluctant to delegate authority. "Show me ten men I can trust," he replied, "and I will delegate authority." Recently a visiting diplomat, who had been doing a lot of business with him, remarked: "Sometimes I think I hardly know you, despite all our talks." Nasser's answer was candid: "Nobody does. I'm too suspicious...
...York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen and rushed it to the composing room for its table of how the states voted. For the word reporters, TV's advantage put a new premium on cultivating sources, getting the kind of candid not-for-attribution quotes that politicians hesitate to share with the voters on TV, chasing politicians where the cameras still cannot go; e.g., whenever Harriman nipped up the back stairs from his suite to Harry Truman's, he was trailed by half a dozen gasping newsmen...