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...Chicago, countering a charge made by Eisenhower a fortnight ago, he held forth to $100-a-plate diners in the vast new McCormick Place exhibition hall. "I am not asking for one-party government," he insisted. "I am asking that you vote for the one party which is willing to work for progress. I am asking for enough help to get the job done. In the 87th Congress the health-care bill was defeated in the Senate by one vote, the full powers of the trade bill were saved by one vote, the original emergency public works bill was defeated...
...Nehru fortnight ago appointed Lieut. General B. M. Kaul, 50. to act as "Commander of the Special Task Force to Intensify Operations Against the Chinese Intruders." A tough, Sandhurst-educated antiCommunist, Kaul was placed on indefinite leave last August after he questioned Defense Minister Krishna Menon's appeasement policy toward Red China. Kaul's new assignment from Nehru: ''To free our territory in the northeast frontier." Said Nehru at week's end: India's forces are "strongly positioned and in a large number operating from higher ground than the Chinese...
...decisions by common consent." says Walker Stone. Scripps-Howard's editor in chief. Based on this common con sent, a group composed of Stone and four editorial writers daily distributes editorials throughout the empire. Editors are expected to run them, and usually do, but no compulsion is involved. Fortnight ago. in segregationist Birmingham, Ala., the Scripps-Howard Post-Herald rejected an angry editorial that compared Mississippi's rioting white supremacists to Nazis. Editor in Chief Stone was not surprised. Said he: "The editors have to modify their approach to suit their audiences...
...there has been some going, too. Most notable: the announcement from the Soviet Union last fortnight canceling Russia's building, which was to have been the fair's largest, budgeted for $20 million (Congress has appropriated $17 million for the U.S. entry...
...test-drilling, a Dutch oil company jointly owned by Shell and Jersey Standard finally hit natural gas under the muddy reclaimed soil of The Netherlands' north eastern province of Groningen. How big the fields were neither the oilmen nor the government ever felt moved to disclose. But fortnight ago. coming before Parliament to ask authority to tap the fields. Economics Minister Jan De Pous at last let the gas out of the bag. The Netherlands' known reserves of natural gas. he reported, amounted to at least 350 billion cubic meters-more than the combined reserves of France...