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Veto Power? Among Dulles' grittiest pre-Paris problems is France's anger at the U.S. and Britain for sending arms to pro-Western Tunisia a fortnight ago. With French rancor so strong that it threatened to stuff up the atmosphere at the Paris meeting, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Washington last week and talked over with Dulles ways and means of keeping Western arms delivered to Tunisia from getting into the hands of rebels in neighboring Algeria...
...yelled angrily for Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy to hustle aboard or get left in Florida, Mayor J. Hart Long said pointedly: "He doesn't have much respect for the future President of the U.S., does he?" To a Young Democrats' convention in Reno a fortnight before, University of Minnesota Coed Geri Storm brought word from her 58 sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy aged perceptibly while barely escaping with his skin from...
...challenging the Ollenhauer bureaucracy, which had insisted on socializing industry, fighting conscription and cultivating neutrality. Most prominent at the moment is broad-beamed Carlo Schmid, 60, a respected intellectual and foreign-policy specialist who backed German rearmament when other parliamentary Socialists fought the whole idea, and last fortnight topped Ollenhauer in the voting for the Socialist parliamentary group's executive council...
Barks from the Fed. Concentrating on the very real dangers of inflation, FRB Chairman Martin and his experts barked so long and so loud that they sounded as if the Federal Reserve was determined to keep credit tight come what may. Only a fortnight ago Chairman Martin preached harshly about inevitable declines (TIME, Nov. 18). As it turned out, says Martin, "I talked too long"-meaning he may have laid it on too thick. Now Martin, who is no man to overstay the market, finally agreed with many businessmen that the risks of deflation outweigh the problems of inflation...
...make the railroads' financial position worse, railway workers last fortnight got a 12? hourly wage increase. The boost will cost rails some $300 million in the next year. To pay their higher bills, railroads last week were getting ready to request their 15th freight-rate hike since World War II (total freight-rate increase since then: 107%). The Interstate Commerce Commission will look kindly upon the request. When the rails got their last rate raise in August, the ICC conceded that it was not enough, and invited them to come back for "further moderate increases." But ICC stipulated that...