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Last week, like every week, Geneva resounded with the din of wrangling delegations. In another wearying round of the nuclear test ban negotiations, the West refused to scale down further its demands for on-site inspections, which stood at 20 annually three years ago, eight this winter, and seven last week. The Russians, who originally refused to permit any inspections, three years ago agreed to "two or three," and last week would not go higher...
...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...
...speech by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and directed all other military brass to submit to the same treatment, the press emitted loud cries of censorship. But though the Kennedy edict certainly frustrated loose talk from the Pentagon, its effect has not been altogether negative. The din of senselessness and longstanding interservice quarrels no longer reaches the public...
...wearing a bandolier of bullets across his chest, Badr told of his escape to a group of 16 newsmen who huddled on mats in a camel-skin tent at an encampment a few miles inside Yemen near the Saudi Arabian border. While dagger-wielding, shouting followers raised a din outside, Badr cheerfully predicted that he would be back on the throne in a few weeks. He claimed to command 20,000 tribesmen...
Bears & Beauties. Tresidder will indeed be a cultural filling-station, boasting a first-rate bookstore, a circulating art library, rooms for chess, reading and music. The question is whether minds can meet above the din of a nine-table ping-pong room, a ten-table billiard room, a 375-seat cafeteria and the crash of pins in the 14-lane bowling alley ($150.000 for automatic pinsetters alone...