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...most effective and dismaying speech was delivered earlier in the week to a partially filled Assembly and a nearly empty press box. Ostensibly, his speech was a plea for "complete and immediate" disarmament, but it came out as a threat. His words dropped heavily into the hushed chamber beside the East River: "We will not be bullied, we will not be scared. Our economy is flowering, our technology is on a steep upturn, our working class is united in full solidarity. You want to compete with us in the arms race? We will beat you in that. Production of rockets...
...neutralist vanities. So was the disarmament ploy that he unveiled at midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana. India and the U.A.R. Outside the Assembly chamber, Khrushchev tirelessly wooed such neutralists as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Ghana's President Nkrumah at a dizzying succession of cocktail parties, dinners and calculatedly casual encounters...
...explain why they have consistently denied the right of self-determination to the people of East Germany." Khrushchev glowered. Macmillan went on to lay the blame for the failure of past disarmament negotiations on Moscow's refusal to accept workable controls. Khrushchev's roar rang through the chamber. "You accept our disarmament proposals," he shouted, "and we will accept any form of controls...
...tied to his mother. When he loses her support, he has no further reason to resist. The promise of even keener intelligence at last buys the child, like a sort of junior Faust. Barry's curtain speech is memorable and moving: "I was wondering about the Forgetting Chamber. If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything, where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky? Back home, around my bed, where my dreams stay...
...point, "Massachusetts needs Leverett Saltonstall. I would change that to America needs Leverett Saltonstall." The Republicans displayed an interesting slate, including Secretary of State nominee Edward W. Brooke, the first Negro in the Commonwealth to run for state-wide office, and Augustus Means, the extremely young-looking Junior Chamber of Commercetype candidate for Lieutenant Governor. There was someone to please everybody, and it was a not unattractive lineup...