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...Wladyslaw Gomulka to the side of the West. But recent events have changed the President's mind. Gomulka, following Moscow's lead, moved toward partial mobilization of Poland's armed forces, and warned that Poland would not "remain passive" in the Berlin crisis. And fortnight ago, at the conference of neutrals in Belgrade, Tito coolly excused Russia's resumption of nuclear tests...
Faithful to the intentions of Architect Eero Saarinen, who died fortnight ago at 51, his partners will move the offices of Eero Saarinen & Associates from its longtime headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Hamden, Conn., sometime next month. Still on his drawing boards in Bloomfield were the daring, Finnish-born form giver's final designs, among them plans for a 37-story Manhattan headquarters for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Eero was especially excited about this design," recalled Saarinen Partner John Dinkeloo. "He felt he was going back to the tradition of Louis Sullivan and making a step forward from...
...times (three). Berra can play third base as well as catch, and he is far more at home in the outfield today than he was one day in 1958, when a flyball dropped through his glove and opened a deep gash over his left eye. From deep in leftfield fortnight ago, Berra threw fleet-footed Tiger Al Kaline out at second base in a decisive play that paved the way for a 1-0 Yankee victory. Against Washington last week, Manager Houk actually sent Yogi into leftfield in the eighth inning for defensive purposes. Leaning into the grandstand, Berra robbed...
...grim, quiet East German left his house in East Berlin a fortnight ago and made his way to the Praesidium der Volkspolizei for a pass to enter the Western zone. A three-month pass was duly handed over, and he was not surprised, for Dr. Kurt Scharf, 58, is chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany-the highest post in German Protestantism-and his wife and four children live in the Western zone, where he has been visiting them about once a week...
What merger-minded U.S. bankers regard as malicious harassment continued to be Department of Justice policy last week. Undeterred by the refusal of a Federal court fortnight ago to bar absorption of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co. by the Continental Illinois National Bank, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's trustbusters raced into New York in an attempt to block the merger of the Hanover Bank (assets: $2 billion) and the Manufacturers Trust Co. (assets: $3.7 billion...