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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer agreed yesterday to a high-level trade talks between the Soviet Union and West Germany in an effort to develop "friendly cooperation...
...Neumann played a vital part in the wartime atom-bomb project. After the war he continued to advise the Government on high-level scientific problems, including thermonuclear weapons and guided missiles. In 1955 he became a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. His advice was instrumental in convincing the Department of Defense that a high-yield thermonuclear warhead could be made light enough to be carried across an ocean by a ballistic missile of practicable size. This thermonuclear breakthrough now dominates the thinking of the U.S. (and probably of the U.S.S.R.) about strategic warfare...
Lofty Pomp. Thus began a long series of official functions with Ike, Dulles, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, and official talks with the President and the Secretary of State. Highlight of the week was Ike's high-level, white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...
Physicists look and act like ordinary men, but when they get together, many of the things they talk about approach the frontier of fantasy. Last week the American Physical Society, in convention in Manhattan, heard plenty of frontier talk. A few of the high-level matters discussed...
...Democrat Averell Harriman for governor of New York in 1958, and well knows that a party chairman, no matter how talented, is considered something of a political hack when it comes to a campaign for high office. Therefore, when Hall gets back from a month or more of sunning and fishing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he is expected to move into a high-level Washington job, where he can not only put his talents to work for the Administration that he helped reelect, but prove that he is worth electing himself...