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There was little doubt, even in the beginning, that Rockefeller was looking far beyond the statehouse in Albany. His inaugural address, which did not even mention the State of New York until page 4, moved New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond to remark that it "could as well have been delivered from the steps of the Capitol in Washington." After only six months as Governor-and countless denials that he was interested in anything beyond Albany-Rockefeller admitted publicly that he had the presidential bug. He undertook a series of whirlwind speaking tours to sample political sentiment, began trying...
...COMECON meeting in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev let loose another tirade against the Market, while in Britain, in full-page advertisements paid for by Tory Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein blared: "I say we must not join Europe.'' Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah denounced Britain's plans to enter the Market and found himself in tune with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, usually no friend of the Commonwealth's black members...
...city's papers. Suburban Newspapers Inc., which peddles five weekly papers throughout Minneapolis suburbs, raised its press run from 23,000 to the mechanical limit-29,000-and brought out a new Sunday edition. Two department stores, desperate at declining sales, teamed to produce a ten-page paper of shopping news that contains nothing but ads and TV program listings: it is consumed in 156,000 Minneapolis homes...
...Letting Go is a long, sober novel, mostly about the uncertainties of the university young (some Jewish, some gentile, none religious). Despite serious flaws, it is one of the better works of fiction published this year. The author's eye and ear have few equals, and on every page the reader knows that he is in the presence of a writer...
...filled the Tribune's editors with what sounded very much like dismay. "We are distressed," it editorialized, after hearing the news. "We would hope that the President has not canceled because of hard reporting by our greatly respected staff or because of the critical nature of our editorial page . . . We hope the President will instruct his assistants to renew the White House subscriptions. And soon." If not, added the Trib later, it would limp along with its other Washington subscribers-notably the U.S. Information Agency (94 copies), the State Department (20), Secretary of State Rusk and the Attorney General...