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Nikita Khrushchev did threaten last week to take the issue to the U.N. But the first hours of the summit conference this week proved that his goal was not so much discussion of issues as massive propaganda. And if he wrecked the prospects of meaningful high-level international negotiation in the process, he did not much seem to care...
...choice for the No. 2 spot. Paired as Vice President with Richard Nixon, he would have a strong attraction for independents and dissident Democrats across the U.S., not to mention a powerful pull in New York and the other Eastern seaboard states. Last week a couple of high-level comments brought Rocky's name once more to the fore. In New York, Dick Nixon's good friend Tom Dewey warmly endorsed Rockefeller for Vice President, and at his Washington press conference, President Eisenhower added a cautious amen: "If Mr. Rockefeller were nominated, he would be one that would...
...Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City...
...arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...
Herter. The real meaning of the series of high-level meetings, said Herter in a speech to the National Foreign Trade Council in Manhattan, is that a new process of communication between East and West may be developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard...