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President Kennedy's first overseas trip will probably be to Paris, for a conference with President Charles de Gaulle. No date has been set, but Quai d'Orsay officials are hoping to confirm a meeting soon after the middle of May-before the state visit of Belgium's King Baudouin to France on May 24. The Kennedy trip, say De Gaulle's aides, "is practically certain...
...most veteran news hands were less than dazzled by the announcement. As if to confirm their suspicions, Spokesman Kharlamov went on. It was true, said he, that the official censorship agency, Glavlit, would stop blue-penciling outgoing copy, but the correspondents would be expected to go on policing their own dispatches-and save a copy of every transmission for authorities. Said Kharlamov blandly: "The new procedure will complicate matters for some correspondents and make their work harder. Now it is all your own responsibility...
Rowan will presumably head a policy planning staff concerned with the National Security Council, but there has been no official announcement from Washington. Sources at the Center for International Affairs will neither confirm nor deny the reports...
During the week, traders and brokers waited suspensefully for the rail average, the other important signal to Dow theorists, to confirm a bull market trend by piercing its previous high of 146.56 reached last March. The rails came tantalizingly close to doing just that-only to fall back to 144.84 at week's end. If the rails do not go through, then the Dow theorists argue that the market is in for trouble. As for the utilities, which are not included in the Dow theory, they have been rising steadily for months under the buying of cautious investors seeking...
...still making rounds when President Kennedy tapped him. The Senate has still to confirm his appointment, but that seems a cinch. Back in Red Level, Ala., his birthplace, Terry was named for a respected local doctor named Luther Leonidas Hill, whose son Lister is now Alabama's senior Senator and chairman of the committee that passes on PHS appointments...