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...determined are a conference site (probably a bigger room in the old Hotel Majestic at 19 Avenue Kle-ber), how many doors will lead to the main hall (when the talks began in May, Hanoi insisted on two doors so that it would be on an equal footing with the U.S.), even the shape of the conference table. Hanoi and the N.L.F. are likely to insist on a four-sided table that will put each delegation in the conference room on an equal footing. Saigon and the U.S. are likely to reject such an arrangement on the ground that...
Nixon's main trouble last week was that some major figures of both parties seemed reluctant to sign on. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was at least a possibility to go to the U.N., but a meeting last week with Nixon only hardened Rocky's conviction that he would rather remain Governor. Some observers also thought it doubtful that his brother David Rockefeller would accept a Nixon offer to become Secretary of the Treasury...
With that, the President and the First Lady went home to bed via the Pierre's front door and the main elevator...
...most celebrated novel was The Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory...
...uneasiness was a reflex born of two world wars instigated by the Germans in the 20th century. The Bonn government had not helped matters in the current crisis. Usually, it is, if anything, overly concerned about European sensibilities. But this time, the West Germans inexplicably forgot their manners. A main offender was Conrad Ahlers, the former Der Spiegel newsmagazine editor who now is the Federal Republic's deputy spokesman. During the Bonn meeting of the world's financial authorities two weeks ago, Ahlers offered injudicious portrayals of some of the Western representatives' behavior behind the closed doors...