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...unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting of the heads of government in the near future, we shall wait until the time is ripe...
Boganda was the son of a witch doctor and he liked to make offhand references to the fact that his father's rites included the eating of human flesh. But Barthélémy Boganda was educated in the white man's missions and later polished in France. He rose to head one of the most primitive of France's colonies, but he emerged as a key African figure...
Long, Long Ago. In equally airy fashion, Khrushchev abandoned the Communist contention that the Western powers had no legal right to maintain forces in Berlin. In one offhand remark designed to render needless all the careful legalist arguments Western chancelleries were preparing, Khrushchev said, "We recognize that they have these rights that stem from the capitulation of Hitlerite Germany 14 years ago, but that's a long time ago." If the West did not voluntarily surrender these rights, he warned, Russia would sign a separate World War II peace treaty with the East German Reds. Then-by Russian logic...
Receiving all of the 100 possible points in the prone and kneeling positions, Murphy became "a little nervous" at the possibility of breaking the record, and missed 11 points in the offhand position...
...also found that many a passenger grumbled about the offhand, grudging service Northwest gave its passengers. Nyrop played to the passengers' fancy with a host of new gimmicks that stress Northwest's "Orient" flavor. He put on Nisei and Chinese-American girls as stewardesses on domestic hops, decked first-class planes with flowers and gave passengers wintergreen-scented hot and cold towels (an old Oriental custom for soothing tired businessmen). Taken together, the changes did much to soothe Northwest Airlines...