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...first confrontation of the Big Four foreign ministers since the Geneva summit of 1955, a total of 1,174 journalists cabled stories about the big fuss over the furniture. But the week's historic news turned out to be the new Western plan for Germany, first outlined fortnight ago in TIME'S May 11 issue. To bring the basic discussion of the issues up to date, see FOREIGN NEWS, Around the Doughnut Table...
...only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered in Geneva before a thousand staring cameras, with no high hopes. The very first interplay-over tables round or square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room, flitting from one briefing to another, comparing notes, were agreed on one thing: that East and West would disagree, but not disastrously -and pass the buck up to Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Macmillan and De Gaulle...
...favor of serious negotiations with the Russians. But he also made a significant concession to the French. He had wanted to make public the Western proposal May 10, the day before the meeting with the Russians began. But the French argued that since the Russians started all the fuss by threatening Berlin, they should be required to submit a plan first. Herter agreed...
...charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required by law? In the resultant fuss, the government toppled and a general election was called...
...Delhi fortnight ago, four couples demonstrated a simple solution: Delhi's first cut-rate mass wedding, with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense...