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...surface, an Eastern-TWA union seems sensible because TWA's East-West routes could offset seasonal fluctuations on Eastern's North-South runs. But TWA has two heavy handicaps: it lost an estimated $15 million last year, and it is 78% owned by eccentric Howard Hughes, who, though he was forced by financiers last year to put his stock in trusteeship in return for a loan of $165 million, can still stir up a lot of turbulence...
Indian Astrologer Acharya Keshav Dev predicts that Feb. 3 will be the beginning of an East-West nuclear test competition that should lead to war by 1970. The astrologers of Nepal foresee more immediate consequences. Mani Prasad Ti-wari predicts political changes in China, possibly a revolt in Nepal, natural disasters in Russia, and "civil disturbances" somewhere southwest of Washington, D.C. Nepalese Field Marshal Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, an amateur astrologer, expects at least an earthquake near by, and foresees another disturbing possibility: "I would not be surprised if this heralds the coming of a new age in which...
...usual, the headlines out of Berlin were dramatic-an American commandant held up at the East-West frontier; a Soviet jeep chased by U.S. troops in retaliation. General Lucius Clay, the President's special representative in Berlin, flew to Washington to demand that the local commander get more freedom to slug back at Communist provocations, unhampered by "contingency plans" requiring a check with Washington before action...
Kennedy once again conferred with Gromyko in the White House to discuss East-West tensions, and this time the President made it clear that he was through with offering U.S. compromises in return for continuing Russian intransigence. Said Kennedy: "You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We don't do that in this
...Belgian scholar decried the "obsession in the United States for injecting the question of communism into situations where it is not a major issue." He said that building a nation and a better life for the Congo's people must come before participation in the East-West struggle...