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Counting Hodges and Ball, the Administration sent five Cabinet secretaries and two deputy secretaries to testify for the bill-the weightiest delegation that Kennedy has so far dispatched to Capitol Hill on behalf of any bill. Gist of the Administration case...
From Common Market headquarters letters went out to the neutrals. Gist: the Six will not even consider the new applications until negotiations over Britain's membership in the market are decided. British and Market delegates are still setting the ground rules for the formal bargaining sessions that are set to begin after Easter...
...theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind of real sick and proud of it, and awfully impatient about those who are well...
...gist of Lileya is a love affair between a young serf and a young serfess during some sort of mid-summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya as his scullery maid. Serf Stephen runs away to join the "free" (naturally) Cossacks, and Lileya hides in a broken-down water mill...
...statement sound ed more expansive than was the actuality; the delegates' area of agreement was limited to Algeria and the Congo. Houphouet-Boigny swore the delegates to secrecy until he could fly off to Paris to press the results on his good friend Charles de Gaulle. But the gist of the policy leaked. Houphouet-Boigny will urge De Gaulle to soften his terms for an Algerian ceasefire. In the U.N. the eleven states will doubtless oppose any condemnation of France on Algeria, but will support a U.N.-supervised referendum to determine Algeria's future. De Gaulle has rejected...