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Ceremony & Grand Cru. Humphrey arrived on the Continent in the same week that the last American flags were lowered at Rocquencourt, the NATO headquarters outside Paris on which French President Charles de Gaulle had posted an April 1 eviction notice. Simultaneously in Geneva, the Kennedy Round of tariff talks between the U.S. and the European Common Market were nearing an April 30 deadline with many problems still unresolved...
...becoming an equal thermonuclear power. Over those specific negotiations, with which Humphrey was immediately concerned, hung the intertwined questions of Viet Nam and East-West rapprochement. Through it all, the Vice President-plainly relishing his liberation from the domestic creamed-chicken circuit-enjoyed more grand ceremony and grand cru wine than could be served in a year of Washington receptions...
...procedural kind. Still to be decided is the question of which reforms should take place, and on this matter the delegates are as divided as ever. One European bloc, including West Germany, Italy and Holland, is in favor of creating a new kind of money, dubbed the "cru" (for composite reserve unit), which would take its place along with the dollar and the pound in the reserves of the world's central banks. Belgium and Switzerland opt instead for merely increasing the borrowing rights that 103 nations already have with the International Monetary Fund. Other nations, including...
...first major campaign to lose money, it had an estimated $42,000 surplus. Last week, when Billy sailed home to rest up for his next crusade (in Berlin, starting Oct. 16), he left be hind him an army of 22,000 Christian laymen who had helped with the cru sade and are now ready to continue their work for evangelism in local churches. Still another permanent result of the crusade was the formation in London of 6,000 new Bible-study groups, which Billy calls "bridges be tween the church...
...CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A special on two Michelangelo frescoes -The Conversion of St. Paul and The Cru cifixion of St. Peter - in the Pauline Chap el of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome...