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...Nixon now agree substantially on the Quemoy-Matsu policy, Nixon still wanted to hear Kennedy say, "I now will depart, or retract my previous views. I think I was wrong in 1955, I think I was wrong in 1959"-and as Nixon spoke, the TV cameras switched to a grinning Kennedy, a grin which better than words indicated how little he felt inclined to oblige...
Officially, Dwight Eisenhower's cross-country tour last week was nonpolitical -but seldom this year has his personal political magic seemed to work so well. Everywhere Ike visited last week-Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas and California-onlookers responded to the President's ready grin and two-armed wave with the kind of heartfelt affection that neither Jack Kennedy nor Dick Nixon (nor any other living U.S. politician) arouses. In San Francisco, a cheering, confetti-hurling noonday crowd of nearly 250,000 gave him the city's warmest welcome since General Douglas MacArthur came home from Japan...
Nikita Khrushchev clumped off the Baltika on his arrival in the United States, he looked at the crowd waiting on the dingy East River pier, saw a somewhat camouflaged familiar face and, with a steely grin, stroked his chin. This was the Soviet boss's wordless greeting to a man he recognized as a member of the press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens...
...majority of delegates in the high-domed Assembly hall broke into applause, Khrushchev, with a mocking leer, began to hammer his clenched fist on his green-topped desk. Whirling in surprise, stolid Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stared at his boss for a second, then hastily assumed a dutiful grin and began to pound away himself...
...them. One favorite technique is to read a letter from a local partisan. In a Flint, Mich, parking lot last week, the letter was from Linda McGrain, 13, who wanted one of the Nixon family's new kittens. She would get her wish, said Nixon with a grin, provided it would not cost him her mother's vote. With that, the crowd was well warmed up, and ready for the marrow of the speech. It is a well-conceived tactic, to offset the feeling that he is lacking in warmth. He gains from the violence of previous denunciations...