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...swarm of competitors waiting at Falmouth and had set out to sea from Penzance in a $500-a-day fishing trawler. When they were 265 miles out, they spotted Manry, who invited them aboard. They interviewed him for three and a half hours on sound film, then telephoned the gist of their interview to Cleveland from the trawler. WEWS, also owned by Scripps-Howard, operates independently of the Press, but it agreed to pass on the interview. All the WEWS that was fit to print appeared in the Press even before the film clips went on the air. Dismayed...
...even President Ho believed that his uncovered country could long endure an all-out air war with the U.S. Although Peking loudly rejected Lyndon Johnson's "carrot-and-stick" bid last week, Ho was more cautious. Hanoi radio reported the gist of the President's speech, and Ho released an earlier interview in which he demanded American withdrawal from South Viet...
...Moscow, which sent its ambassador to France a memorandum for delivery to Charles de Gaulle. Its gist: Russia, France, and all other peace-loving nations who were signatories to the 1954 Geneva pact that split up French Indo-China, should sit down at a table, neutralize South Viet Nam, and require the U.S. to depart the premises. The idea was right in line with De Gaulle's own thinking, and his government promptly agreed to support such a conference...
There was no public word as to the conversation, but its gist may have been reflected in a passage added by President Johnson to a speech he made that afternoon to businessmen attending a meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board (see BUSINESS...
Meanwhile the south, where university classes were suspended for a week to calm rioting students, was hastily visited by a government envoy. Gist of his message: for the time being, the southerners can still correspond with the capital, if they wish, in the associate language...