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...Curt Dismissal. The policymakers in Washington clearly face a dichotomy that has perhaps too long encumbered U.S. policy: the demand that Europe assume greater responsibility for its own defense, yet accept final U.S. decisions as to its own weapons, policies, even its leadership. But even if it was time for a change, was France's way the right way for Europe...
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens...
Winston Churchili celebrates his 90th birthday, and issues a statement that "de Gaulle is getting too big for his breeches." The General answers him in a curt note to the Queen: "My dear young lady: It is evident that Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...
...newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain, 'I just don't know what I'm going to do about my dog-my poor little Curt. He was so used to the Times that he simply won't have anything to do with any other paper.' It seems so certifiable to hear somebody say something like that, and yet, when you stop to think about it a minute -why, what could make such sense...
Struelens applied for permanent resident status as an immigrant. The Justice Department rejected his application in December on the basis of a curt note from Dean Rusk to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: "In my judgment, considerations of the foreign policy of the U.S. indicate that the exercise of discretion in favor of Mr. Struelens in the present case is not warranted." Out of 19,500 such applications last year, Justice turned down only 1,200. At a deportation hearing last week before an Immigration and Naturalization official, the only government evidence was the Rusk letter. By various appeals, Struelens...