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...frustrating. Here was the President of the U.S. with a statement he wanted to make-but nobody at his news conference last fortnight asked him the right question. So into a White House file went the statement until Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was asked, dug it out last week and released it to newsmen. It was a Kennedy announcement avowing firm support of Nationalist China and flat opposition to U.N. membership for Red China. Said the statement: "The United States has always considered the Government of the Republic of China the only rightful government representing China, and has always given...
...Hardly was he back from a good-will visit to Moscow in September when the ominous chain of events began. First he purged his Cabinet of some moderates who had been his main stay, notably the eminent Finance Minister K. A. Gbedemah. installed radical leftists in their places. Then fortnight ago. he cracked down on leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician...
...helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...Fortnight ago, the prestige of both the White House and the State Department was brought to bear on Route 40. Sanjuan spoke to a luncheon meeting of 200 Maryland civic leaders, who had received personal invitations to the session from President Kennedy. "We pour millions into foreign aid," Sanjuan told the group. "How senseless it is to ruin this tremendous effort by refusing to serve a cup of coffee to a customer whose skin is dark...
...foreign producers, whose steadily increasing efficiency is being honed by newer machinery and by the success of regional trading arrangements, such as Europe's Common Market (see THE WORLD). Competition from European producers forced Canadian aluminum makers to cut their prices, and that, in turn, led to last fortnight's reductions by Aluminum Corp. of America and last week's cuts by Reynolds Metals Co. Besides being contagious from country to country, price reductions also spread from industry to industry inside the U.S. Prime example: the aluminum cuts put fresh pressure on steelmen to hold their...