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...York's Columbia University, Erhard received an honorary doctor of laws degree, along with six others. At a luncheon given by the German-American Chamber of Commerce and attended by 635 U.S. businessmen, Erhard spoke of deteriorating U.S.-French relations, and their effect on the Atlantic Alliance. West Germany's foreign policy, he said, depends on a strong Western Alliance that includes both France and the U.S. "There can be no European unity without France or without Germany," he declared. And "without the closest alliance with the U.S.," there can be no North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless. "If there is anything I could do," he said, "I would do it. But I assume the die is cast...
Finally, an answer. Chairman Jordan had arrived in the chamber, sat with hands folded in his lap while Williams spoke, then delivered a lame reply: "It would be highly out of order for me to engage in a discussion of the working draft until the committee has met and acted...
...problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world opinion but because of his calculation of the risks...
...stirring with uncommon force. Both a U.S. presidential commission and the prestigious Committee for Economic Development have urged the U.S. to expand its commerce with Eastern Europe, and President Johnson repeated his earlier promise to ease restrictions on sales to Russia and its satellites. Going farther, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting urged the U.S. to "open channels of communications with the people of Communist China." Last week the trade drive picked up speed in three European capitals. The U.S. opened its first trade show in Budapest amid the whir of computers and the roar of tractors...