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...finished, Soviet Negotiator Valerian Zorin read a prepared text that derided the U.S. concessions. The proposal, gibed Zorin, was "just the old American position dolled up in a new guise to deceive the neutrals." The Administration's proposal got more notice at home than it did at the inter national conference table. For the whole question of the U.S. position at Geneva was becoming a political issue. Declared Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "Hat in hand, the Kennedy Administration sent our negotiators back to Geneva with a new set of concessions," which "the Russian representative threw cold water...
...Glenn and Scott Carpenter. But the performance of Vostok III and Vostok IV abruptly reopened the space race and led some scientists to speculate that Russia intended to put a man on the moon within four years. "Once they have achieved orbital rendezvous," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Inter-Planetary Society, "they have taken the vital step toward lunar flight...
...Alliance, there was no central clearinghouse for aid requests. Washington's lending agencies operated on their own, and the State Department, which was supposed to be in overall command, was plagued by a dizzying succession of Latin American policymakers. First in charge was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann, who stayed on after the Eisenhower Administration left. Next came New Deal Brain-Truster Adolph Berle, who resigned soon after the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then it was Robert Woodward, a career diplomat who lasted eight months before going to Spain as U.S. ambassador...
...hand in every Latin American decision. Only recently have things settled down. Last week Goodwin was in Europe setting up a "world conference on middle management" to help businessmen train second-echelon executives. In firm charge at last of Latin American policy is Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin, 54, a career Government economist. Under him, Alliance Boss Moscoso seems to be getting the free hand he needs to make the Alliance work...
Died. Henry Finch Holland, 49, a jut-jawed lawyer who was John Foster Dulles' Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1954-56, an energetic champion of the concept that private enterprise should play the major role in developing Latin America's economy, describing himself as a man "often in error but never in doubt"; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn...