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...situation to stay home. Last week, he was off on another of his periodic missions to rural pigsties and haylofts, while his chief international troubleshooter, Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, was on a swing through West Africa. Artful Anastas got a coolly correct reception in Guinea, where he tried to mend some fences; the Soviet ambassador, since expelled, had stirred up demonstrations against President Sekou Toure, a Marxist but apparently not enough of one for Moscow. In Red-leaning Mali and Ghana, Mikoyan was treated like an honorary African, grinned while a provincial street was named after...
Nehru also tried to mend his U.S. fences. Recalling that diplomatic approaches from the U.S. and Great Britain had twice postponed the invasion date, he said: "We appreciate the anxiety of the U.S. to help us solve this problem." Asked if he had a New Year's thought for the world, Nehru replied: "I may sound like a hypocrite, but my message is 'Work for peace...
...Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba's first Minister of the Interior, worked hard to prepare Tunisia for full independence. When it was granted on March 20, 1956, Bourguiba named Slim Ambassador to the U.S. and Canada and permanent delegate to the United Nations...
...mend a fence allegedly destroyed by the Redcoats in 1778, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd forwarded a check for $18 to the rector of Philadelphia's St. Peter's Episcopal Church. In response to the Rev. Joseph Koci Jr.'s tongue-in-cheek demand for some $760,000 in damages and compound interest, Lloyd legalistically pointed out that since Revolutionary War treaty conventions exempted Britain from further financial responsibility toward her unruly erstwhile American colonies, the St. Pe ter's claim should properly be addressed to "the federal government of the United...
...while last week, the most important instrument of Government was the thermometer that measured the ups and downs of presidential temperature. Even as the nation's most celebrated backache seemed on the mend, John Fitzgerald Kennedy came down with what the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, described as a "mixed bacterial and viral infection...