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...Satchmo, will you get to Heaven?/I doubt it," said Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenlco in a poetic tribute to the late Louis Armstrong. "But if you do,/Do as you did in the past./And play./Cheer up the state of the angels." The outspoken Yevtushenko has bothered Russia's bosses for years, blessing and blaming with small regard to the Communist Party line. And he has not changed. In one part of his Armstrong's Trumpet he says, "A poet and a great jazzman are equal brothers in what they give the world." Soviet leaders, who frown...
...pronounced invalid the ten-year agreement allowing Britain to keep military forces on the island. He asked Washington to suspend further Sixth Fleet visits "pending revision of general agreements." For good measure, Mintoff also declared NATO's Mediterranean commander, Italian Admiral Gino Birindelli, persona non grata. Birindelli, an outspoken right-winger who kept his NATO headquarters on Malta, had accused Mintoff of planning to let the Russians use the island as a naval base...
...Allen Hynek, chairman of Northwestern University's astronomy department and the scientific community's most outspoken investigator of UFOs, also complains of a news blackout. To prevent the loss of what he considers "material of potential scientific value," Hynek has established an informal Blue Book project of his own at Northwestern. He is particularly anxious to get reports from trained scientific observers whose anonymity he promises to preserve (to spare them ridicule from their colleagues). Hynek insists that UFO sightings are often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular...
...honorary degrees to ten men and two women in the ceremony in Tercentenary Theater. Included in the list were two political-literary figures - one black, one white - from Africa: Leopold Sedhar Senghor, President of Senegal and a widely know poet and essayist, and Alan Paton, South African novelist and outspoken opponent of the policy of apartheid in that country...
...highly effective. In the 1950s, Luns was instrumental in the success of the economic union of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. He helped bring about the Treaty of Rome, which set up the Common Market, and Euratom, the pooling of Western European nuclear research facilities. He was also an outspoken champion of a strong NATO and of British admission into the European Economic Community. On both points he clashed with Charles de Gaulle, but the two men nonetheless developed a deep mutual admiration. Shortly before his death. De Gaulle sent Luns a copy of his memoirs inscribed "In Friendship...