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...Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
...rival resolution endorsing Gaitskell's stand seemed doomed to defeat-until twinkling little Bill Carron, leader of the Amalgamated Engineers (907,000 members) suddenly made a bid to save his old friend. His engineers were committed to vote for unilateral nuclear dis armament. But Carron proclaimed, after consulting with his delegation, that he found no contradiction between the two resolutions and would therefore cast his union's big vote for both...
...make the keynote speech, the committee picked Idaho's ever smiling Senator Frank Church.* who is 35 but looks mid-twentyish. Church attracted national attention at 16. when he won an American Legion oratorical contest. In 1956 he orated himself into the Senate, where his most obvious dis tinction is to be that body's youngest member. Legend has it that an old lady visiting the Capitol once said to him: "I understand that you page boys are often mistaken for Senator Church...
...Manhattan Lawyer Fredrick Eaton, chief U.S. delegate, put it. creation of new weapons has always outstripped efforts to disarm ever since the Chinese pirates on the Yangtze held the first dis armament conference in 9 B.C. Now, in the Atomic Age, the haggling has droned on through 14 years to no avail. In the very next room at the Palais, the three-nation nuclear-test-ban conference (U.S., Russia, Britain) had made little progress in more than 16 months of debate...
...hint that the Government winked at clandestine flights to Cuba from 200-odd Florida airfields. And at week's end, the U.S. cracked down hard on the flights, while adding the friendly gesture of sending planes and ships to look for Cuban Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who dis appeared in a light plane over central Cuba. The note also "categorically rejected" a favorite Castro myth - that the U.S. press is "engaged in a deliberate campaign to misrepresent and discredit the Government of Cuba." While on the subject of controlling Castro-hating exiles in the U.S., the State Department delivered...