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...could count some breakthroughs last week. The University of Kentucky became the first school in the Southeastern Conference to open its athletic program to Negroes. Atlanta announced it would integrate its swimming pools. Negroes were allowed to lunch in five Charlotte, N.C., hotels and motels that were previously segregated. Harold Richardson, the first Negro to run for office in Maine (where Uncle Tom's Cabin was written 112 years ago) was elected a trustee of the Portland water district. Across the nation, Negro boycotts of U.S. businesses had forced new equality in job opportunities (see BUSINESS...
...visit Kennedy (their last meeting took place in France two years ago), Kennedy let it be known through diplomatic channels that he was willing to go to France if De Gaulle wanted to see him. De Gaulle, however, showed no interest in a meeting. > In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gently but persistently hinted that he wanted to meet with Kennedy during his European trip. Macmillan has no urgent business that he needs to discuss (he has a direct telephone line to the White House, talks with Kennedy frequently), but he wants to pick up every particle of prestige...
Many British politicians and military experts share Montgomery's mistrust of the multilateral force (MLF) and its sponsor-the U.S. Indeed, though Prime Minister Harold Macmillan nominally agreed at Nassau last December to support the NATO force, his government has been hoping ever since that MLF would quietly capsize of its own complexity...
When he projects his own image, Harold Macmillan sounds more like Trollope than Tide. In an interview with Publisher Jocelyn Stevens in last week's issue of Queen magazine, the Prime Minister indulged in some mellow ruminations that could never have been cued by an adman...
Died. Harry Sacher, 60, longtime mouthpiece for U.S. Communists, who, in defense of eleven top party members in 1949, so badgered, bullied and bedeviled federal Judge Harold Medina, hoping to ruin the jurist's health and thus gain a mistrial, that after the Reds' conviction Medina sentenced him to six months in jail (which he served, though a similar sentence in 1956 for refusing to tell Congress whether he was a Communist was overturned by the Supreme Court); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sniffed Sacher to Medina: "If it were necessary in the cause of liberty...