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...Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit to the U.S. next year, the difference of their opinions made it, in the words of one diplomat, "a dialogue of the deaf...
...19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would be rather disastrous...
Admitting that "we are all a little deaf and dumb," Paul said: "Let us ex plain the points of doctrine that are still the object of controversy. We do not wish either to absorb or to humiliate all this great flowering of the Oriental churches, but yes, we do desire that this flowering be regrafted onto the one tree of the one church of Christ...
...Pope's speech clearly invited the Orthodox prelates to send observers to the second session of the Vatican Council, which begins Sept. 29. But Orthodoxy remains a little deaf, even though one of the observers from the World Council of Churches is Greek Orthodox, and the Patriarchate of Moscow will probably send two delegates to the second session, as it did to the first. Three weeks ago, Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and first among equals of the Orthodox prelates, invited the other Eastern churches to meet at Rhodes on Sept. 19 to reconsider the question...
...telephone" for deaf-mutes, developed at Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, uses a compact set of vibrators to communicate as many as 67 words a minute. The "speaker" taps out his message on a set of switches built into a piano-like keyboard. The "listener," his fingers resting on a duplicate keyboard, feels each key or combination of keys vibrate in response to the speaker's signals. According to the telephone's U.S.-born inventor, Aeronautical Engineer Joseph Hirsch, it is a simple matter to put the letters of the alphabet and actual words into an easily...