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Obviously De Gaulle must go on test ing if he is to develop his force de frappe. Some believe that the Moscow agreement puts the U.S. and Russia in league against De Gaulle and his ambitions, thereby further straining the NATO alliance. But Washington argues that De Gaulle cannot grow much more anti-NATO than he is already, and hopes, further, that le grand Charles, after swallowing his initial annoyance, may soften his stand for fear of being isolated...
Arriving in Bonn just 13 days after President Kennedy's triumphant visit, Charles de Gaulle made no effort to enter a popularity contest. Both French and Germans legitimately emphasized that the two-day trip was only a "work ing visit" as stipulated by the brand-new Franco-German Friendship Treaty. As far as protocol and the public were concerned, it was even a kind of unvisit -no parades, no crowds, none of the pageantry so dear to the heart of De Gaulle...
...work ers left seem more efficient. At any rate, the economy is enjoying a remarkably prolonged rise in productivity. Business men do not like to boast about it open ly, lest unions ask for higher wages or shorter hours, but industrial productivity has been rising some 3.5% annually dur ing the current, 29-month-old upswing in business - far above the nation's long-term average gain of 2.2% a year...
...agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
...Africa Hall." Eyes glittering, Nkrumah took the floor to demand "Unity Now!" in the form of a vast United States of Africa, ruled by a bicameral Congress and a strong presidency (which, no one doubted, Nkrumah feels himself eminently qualified to occupy). Nkrumah likened the Addis Ababa meet ing to the 1787 Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia, whose delegates, he said, thought of themselves not as "Virginians or Pennsylvanians, but simply Americans." Cried Ghana's self-styled Redeemer: "We meet here today not as Ghanaians, Guineans, Egyptians. Algerians, Moroccans, Malians, Liberians, Congolese, or Nigerians, but as Africans...