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...JUNE 1963-In a series of secret communications, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree to hold high-level test ban negotiations in Moscow...
...letter from Ward, boasting of his supposed help in settling the Cuba matter, but filed it away as coming from a crank. Before Ivanov was recalled to Moscow* in January 1963, he aroused suspicion in other ways. A bridge player who took a hand in some very high-level games, he lost steadily, as much as $140 a night. "I do not believe the Soviet embassy's petty cash would stand such losses every night," said one Labor M.P. caustically, "unless they got something...
...attempt toward an "early agreement on a comprehensive test-ban treaty" will be made in high-level talks between Great Britain, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in Moscow in July...
When argument broke out, after Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit mission, about whether to continue Project Mercury, Holmes again was ignored. Though Holmes personally opposed another Mercury flight because of the high cost, Webb and other high NASA officials publicly dubbed it "unlikely," without once consulting him. The astronauts paid no attention to Holmes either, and got in their own high-level politicking in favor of the flight over cocktails with President Kennedy at Cooper's Washington reception...
...speech, this time in the Departmental Auditorium, lauding the work of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. That afternoon the President defended his tax-cut and budget policies in a luncheon speech to the trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, an association of high-level businessmen and educators. In a question-and-answer session afterward, he said that "it would be a mistake" to save money by slowing down U.S. space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts" in space "in the coming months." On other days last week, the President: > Named retired Navy...