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Next day Bourguiba moved up to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of Congress. An eloquent orator and a practiced politician ("I am a political animal"), Bourguiba was right at home among the Congressmen and Senators. Said he: "What your country needs is not satellites who vote with you...
The Socialists, aware that their bitter strike had lost them face with Belgium's basically conservative shopkeepers and housewives, pinned their hopes on Paul-Henri Spaak, who resigned his post as NATO Secretary-General to return to Belgian politics. Last week he picked up a Medal of Freedom in...
Gizenga has sent out an urgent appeal for help. Last week nine Communist-bloc countries and seven left-leaning neutrals lined up to extend him diplomatic recognition as the "legitimate" government of the Congo. But even if Gizenga gets support from abroad, he is a poor stand-in for Lumumba...
"Our Bridge." Jacqueline Bouvier's birth, on July 28, 1929 in Long Island's Southampton Hospital, was duly recorded in Manhattan society columns. Such notice was only proper: the Bouviers were rich, Republican, Catholic, socially impeccable, and in their own less boisterous fashion, fully as overwhelming as the...
The author, Wilfrid Sheed, 30, an Anglo-American-Australian (and son of U.S. Roman Catholic Publisher Frank Sheed), has written a quiet, sound little story, but probably one destined to make a punctuation mark in the long catalogue of those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The...