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...things got under way, Jimmy Stewart told the home audience that the uninterrupted program was "being brought to you in living black and white." Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel-"only it watches you"-also called attention to the parades of expensive talent being given away free to television, proving that "the motion-picture industry isn't frightened. It's off its rocker...
Competitive Flight. Last week's space junket took off on a typewriter at 7:52 p.m. Monday in Paris, where Agence France-Presse, on a telephoned tip from its Moscow Bureau Chief Constantin Zar-nekau, flashed: "For the first time, a man has been put aboard a Soviet rocket, it is believed in Western circles." Forty-one minutes later, after communicating with Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Shapiro, United Press put on the wire a wary note to editors stating that there were "rumors" in Moscow of a manned rocket but "no official confirmation." Reuters also sidled...
Sticky Stop. Inevitably, the stickiest stop on Kishi's latest junket was Australia. Kishi, forewarned that anti-Japanese feeling is still strong, was nervous and uneasy. His hosts surrounded him with armed bodyguards. "Sacrilege," cried an official of the Returned Servicemen's League at an announcement that the Japanese Premier would lay a wreath at Australia's national war memorial, the Stone of Remembrance, in Canberra. But the league's president rejoined sternly: "We welcome the wreath laying as a respectful salute...
...little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
Returning from a 24-day world-circling observation junket (termed by his foes a "farewell present" from the Administration), Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson flew into Washington and a round of reporters' goading about his ever-rumored resignation. "That question has been raised ever since the first week I took the job," said Ezra. "I presume if the prognosticators work long enough, they are sure to hit it right some time. I have no plans to leave...