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...press conference, St. Laurent told newsmen that Nehru had informed him in advance of his plan for an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Then St. Laurent declared, in what appeared to be a friendly, off-the-cuff gesture, that the plan had his complete approval. He would back Nehru's suggestion "without any hesitation or reservation whatsoever...
...implication, as supporting a viewpoint not in fact supported. Nothing that I said while at the meetings of economists in Washington came close in sound or meaning to the statement attributed to me: "The bigness bugaboo took a licking here." I did remark, in an off-the-cuff discussion with one of your reporters, that many economists have apparently come to consider monopolistic business as much less widespread and important in the American economy than they had formerly believed. I suggested that this change of attitude was traceable in part to recent empirical studies, but probably in much larger part...
...knew it, Vag was at the Ware collection of glass flowers, which he understood was part of Harvard. The little boy bolted from the bus, and ran into the building intent on picking some of the flowers. Cute kid, Vag thought to himself. But his father shouldn't cuff him around like that...
...Beverly Hills, Teitelbaum furriers offered mink bras and panties in 30 different mutations. Price: $2,500 a set. Also in Beverly Hills, Jewells by Tobias put on sale gold cuff links, in the shape of "his" and "her" shorts (viewed from the rear...
...message from Moscow caught the West by surprise, but once the haze of off-the-cuff interpretations cleared away, the move seemed logical, the motives obvious. On Nov. 3, the Kremlin had issued a heavy-handed note harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with...