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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a very American novel written by a Frenchman about Belgium. The U.S. note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon...
Three Strings. In his talk with Thompson, Khrushchev made it perfectly plain that he has not by one jot or tittle changed his views on the outstanding issues of the cold war-Berlin, the Congo, Laos, disarmament or nuclear testing. Khrushchev's offer to free Olmstead and McKone came at the very start of the session. He attached three strings: 1) the announcements of the airmen's release must be made simultaneously in Washington and Moscow, with no advance news leaks; 2) the U.S. must publicly declare that it has discontinued its U-2 flights over Soviet territory...
Could the embryos have developed further-into human beings? "It is technically possible," answered Dr. Petrucci. '"We have overcome three obstacles that were held to be insurmountable: temperature, gas exchange and metabolism." Petrucci's suggestion stunned the Roman Catholic Church. Its plain reply: the experiments should be stopped. At week's end, bowing to pressure, Catholic Petrucci announced that he was leaving for a vacation in Switzerland...
...almost say that his was a peace at any price. It was during his eight years that Soviet Russia achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems and dangerous situations by displaying massive unconcern, meanwhile hoping that time will remove the difficulties and denature the dangers...
...Just Plain Doctor. The reason for Nkrumah's move was not displeasure but competition. Even in Ghana, readers prefer news to propaganda, and even in Nkrumah's Ghana, readers still have a choice. The Daily Graphic, which is owned by London's Daily Mirror group, almost never calls Nkrumah Osagyefo; he is usually "the President" or "Dr. Nkrumah"-a reference to his honorary LL.D. from Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. Open criticism of Nkrumah is not healthy in Ghana, but when the Graphic disapproves of the presidential policies, it simply runs no editorial column...