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...reaction. Harold Macmillan's Tory government was already on shaky political ground; its Labor opposition was always easily stirred on nuclear matters, and Macmillan and Britain had based all their long-range nuclear hopes on Skybolt. McNamara's cancellation of the Skybolt project met with furious British protests...
...negotiations. Drafted "on a lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style of the release, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was a model of outraged dignity before the House of Commons. It was, he cried, "an unprecedented action" and an "unwarranted intrusion in Canadian affairs." Canada remains a friend and ally of the U.S., but not a "satellite...
When the Swedish Ambassador to Britain, furious at the Earl's description of Sweden as "a piddling country," challenged him to a duel, the Earl accepted with alacrity. "I have suggested as a meeting place the Hyde Park underpass, and as weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living...
After a week of major battles, furious fighting and heavy casualties (TIME, Jan. 11), the war in South Viet Nam settled back last week into its normal pattern of vicious, hide-and-seek, hit-and-run engagements. One band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas beheaded a government provincial district chief northwest of Saigon, and another knocked over a strategic hamlet in the northeast, capturing enough U.S. weapons to equip an entire Red company. With U.S. helicopter crews working overtime, government troops killed and wounded 75 Viet Cong and captured tons of supplies in a sweep through a Red-infested area...
...while, a small side-stage group of instrumentalists brews a weird and furious counterpoint of sound. The drum mer underscores and paces the action with the charged beat of an Oriental Gene Krupa. After its two-week stay in Manhattan, the Foo Hsing Theater, which has toured the U.S. from coast to coast and toast to toast, opens in Mexico City...