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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corks stayed on, scornfully suggested that credentials be mailed to Hallstein. Hallstein in turn refused to go into mail-order diplomacy, and the line of waiting unaccredited diplomats grew until it reached 17. Finally, last week, both sides gave in to a compromise that satisfied De Gaulle's main point. Representatives of South Africa and South Korea in mufti slipped quietly into Hallstein's office, were received by the EEC president in a grey business suit, departed without so much as a cup of coffee...
...water supplies for the coming year. This season, the monsoon arrived on schedule June 10th, but after a few teasing showers in eastern and northern India, the skies suddenly cleared and the sun reemerged, baking the earth and burning off the dwindling water in Bombay's four main reservoirs. By last week, the city was down to no more than a six-week supply...
...overflow" area is overflowing. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, stretching across parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, draws 6,000,000 visitors a year, highest of any park in the system, and traffic on summer weekends backs up for 20 miles on either side of the two main entrances...
What condemns This Properly is a plot tacked on by three zealous screen writers, to whom the Williams original "suggested" a long, lurid flashback starring Natalie Wood as Alva. During her tenure as main dish at her mother's boarding house for railroad men, Natalie catches her breath occasionally to indicate that she is not long for this whirl. Meanwhile, Kate Reid plays Mama as a sleazy old bagful of Southern comforts who snaps like a lizard whenever Alva mentions striking out alone to taste the high life of Noo Awlyuns...
This slender memoir, written in 1958 but not discovered until Beaverbrook's death at 85 in 1964, is his insider's view of the crisis that shook Britain and at times threatened to topple the throne. The Beaver's main thesis, certain to be debated, is that some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...