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...their attempts to bridge Europe's age-old nationalisms, Erhard, Segni and other European statesmen will crisscross the Continent in coming weeks. De Gaulle to the contrary, they are convinced that Europe's tenuous economic ties must be anchored in permanent political institutions if the Continent is not to remain forever a headless "torso...
Since the days when cockleshell Phoenician galleys first began to crisscross the Mediterranean, men have made fortunes trading abroad. But in 1962 as never before, business strategists made their day-to-day decisions and long-range plans in the light of the challenges and opportunities of a world market. Says Georges Villiers, president of France's National Council of Employers: "Like the Moliere character who spoke prose without knowing it, we are engaging in supranationalism without knowing...
Winding up his primary campaign, Nixon plans to crisscross the state for giant rallies and late-hour major speeches. He has scheduled a "Win with Nixon" telethon (9 p.m. to 1 a.m.) in which he will answer questions called in by telephoning viewers. Most of all, his strategy depends on ignoring Shell-thereby not making the hard-Shell right any madder-and concentrating his fire on the shilly-shally administration of Pat Brown...
...ancient Crathis. After only ten days of work, they located 800 yds. of a city wall buried under many feet of soil, and test pits turned up pottery fragments from the 6th century B.C., when Sybaris was at its glittering peak. British, U.S. and Italian archaeologists will continue to crisscross the area with detailed magnetometer surveys to guide large-scale excavations. By the end of summer, they hope to know whether they have really found the long-buried ruins of sybaritic Sybaris...
...peaceful weapons: food, loans, technical assistance-and in crisis, their advice to the government back home can even fetch battleships and airplanes. But words and opportunities remain the basic armament of diplomacy. In an age when heads of state can conveniently meet face to face, when foreign ministers crisscross the globe like soldier ants, when lies as well as truth travel with the speed of thought, it is still the ambassadors in every world capital who must explain their governments' policies to friends and foes, restrain the hasty, encourage the weak. For no nation in history was this task...