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West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano briskly set the record straight: "It was nothing but a joint aggression pact that brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to deceive each other. I am perfectly willing to send Herr Khrushchev a map showing the new frontier [dividing Poland] between Germany and the Soviet Union which bears the signatures of Stalin and Ribbentrop...
Accredited, along with some 1,500 newsmen, to cover President Kennedy's recent European visit, the Hearst Task Force was soon blazing its usual exclusive sidetracks all over the map. In Paris the huntsmen-Editor-in-Chief Hearst, National Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine-aimed for President de Gaulle, but missed (he never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely...
...cannot properly be charged with exploitation, since it takes nothing whatever out of the area, either in profits or produce. As for self-government, how do you form a political community out of 76,000 people speaking nine languages and spread out (see map) over 3,000,000 square miles, demanded one official of the Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over most of the territory. "It's quite probable that you don't," admits Secretary Stewart Udall. "But we are going to have to make a stronger effort to prepare them for economic and political responsibilities...
...areas to exert a strange drawing power. In tourism as in geopolitics, the great land masses have a vast strategic pull. If there is a mystique of the island, there is also a mystique of the continent. While some travelers are magnetically attracted by the Demote speck on the map and by the isolation of surrounding ocean, others are drawn by the large, solid patches and the isolation of the landlocked interior. To them, Africa is perhaps the most challenging tourist domain...
Germination has already begun in parts of the South, is relentlessly moving northward (see map). The great, hopeful new weapon against the enemy is the "pre-emergence" killer, but the big question for the thousands who doused their lawns with the new chemicals is: Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others...