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...fuss. No muss. Just progress...
...dingy string of stockyards, tenements and small factories near the bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, El Chamizal hardly seems worth the fuss. Yet President Kennedy heard about it at length during his Mexico trip last year. He left convinced that it was time to end the quarrel once and for all. Last week, after months of negotiation by U.S. Ambassador Thomas Mann, the U.S. and Mexico, in simultaneous ceremonies in Washington and Mexico City, announced a settlement...
...minded individualist. But he was also well known as a powerful man with a bottle-and in office the binges seemed to have grown more frequent. For days at a time, he failed to show up at his office in the palace. In November, he kicked up a royal fuss in a Quito nightclub; he showed up sloshed for his talk with President Kennedy on a state visit to the U.S. last July, almost fell on his face at Guayaquil's airport five months later when he went out to greet Chile's strait-laced President Jorge Alessandri...
...himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...
S.R.O. is an unfamiliar condition in London's West End, where theatergoing is a relaxed and casual matter, seats are cozy, there's tea at the interval, and no fuss or pushing. Last week at Wyndham's Theater, however, conditions were rougher. The Wyndham contained a crowd rather than an audience. Standees were pressed against all walls. They had come to see Oh What a Lovely War, a play described by the Times as "a savage humanitarian document, with all its teeth gleamingly intact...