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...talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...
...they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem approval of recent French progress-civil as well as military-in Algeria. But another replied, symbolizing the many Algerians yet to be won over: "You are not fit to serve as the recipient for the excrement of our liberation army...
...Ordered Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to call in British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, notify him that the U.S. was weary of continuing British complaints about the high-level flights-flown in the interests of the West-and intended to continue them...
...Walter Reed, would also give doctors a chance to find out whether the radiation treatment had arrested the spread of his cancer. After he found the answers, he would decide whether to 1) carry on as Secretary of State, 2) resign as Secretary but carry on in perhaps the high-level, influential capacity of presidential adviser on foreign affairs, or 3) resign and retire. Last week's clues, for the deduction-minded, were few. Said Dr. Kamin: "He's aggressive in his convalescence. He's perking up since he came to Florida. He stays in the pool...
...economic argument is "administered prices." It crops up in union charges that business fails to cut prices in response to slackened demand, instead reduces volume and employment. It turns up in management charges that unions have set wages so high that wages, in effect, administer prices, keeping them high. Like an insistent musical theme, the phrase recurs in high-level talk that the Government may have to restore wage and price controls to keep down inflation. Where did the phrase originate? What does it mean...