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Indian and Pakistan passions run so deep on Kashmir that not even the U.S. likes to take a forthright stand. Britain and the U.S. are busily looking in other directions: Britain helped solve the Rann of Kutch dispute but is bypassing the Kashmir fighting; though heavily arming both sides, Washington has no intention of becoming embroiled...
Spreading Out. Most of the credit for this resiliency belongs to Howard L. Clark, 49, Amexco's relaxed, forthright president. Clark joined the company in 1945, fresh from wartime duty as a lawyer in the Navy (where he worked with a fellow lieutenant named Richard Nixon). Hired as assistant to President Ralph Reed, Clark watched and learned the business over Reed's shoulder, developed a strong group of young executives, succeeded his boss in 1960. He promptly began reorganizing American Express, giving existing divisions more autonomy and, most important, spreading the company into many new fields...
...Major Milestone. Latin American diplomats warmed to L.B.J.'s words, calling the speech his most forthright and successful yet on the Alianza. Dr. Carlos Sanz de Santamaria, CIAP chairman, said it "marks a major new milestone in the Alliance for Progress." It also assured Latin America that the U.S. is prepared to support social and economic progress throughout Latin America, regardless of its commitments and involvement elsewhere in the world...
...latest morsel from the previously published-only-in-Paris works of Olympia Press will disappoint smut lovers everywhere. It is at best a poor scraping from the bottom of the Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro Author...
Aside from Thanksgiving, the Commencement pageantry which will gradually unravel in the Yard this morning is America's oldest continuous festival; by its forthright uniqueness, it is also one of the most endearing signs of the everlasting Harvard...