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...with closed eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
Though the decision will not affect the damage cases that have already been settled, it may well prompt other customers to take their claims to court. Between 800 and 1,000 cases are still outstanding. Most are small, but at least two substantial claims will be brought by the Midwest's American Electric Power and Michigan's Consumers Power. The Philadelphia decision will be appealed by General Electric and Westinghouse, and probably by the other defendants. But the appeals alone could tie them up in costly litigation for years...
They will spend the day meeting with a number of key Senators, urging them to work for the prompt passage of the bill without weakening amendments, and will return to Cambridge into tonight...
...PANAMA. Three months after the Canal Zone riots, the U.S. and Panama ended their silly semantic squabble and agreed "to seek prompt elimination of the causes of conflict between the two countries without limitations or preconditions of any kind." Diplomatic relations were restored, and Johnson immediately named fellow Texan Robert B. Anderson, who was Dwight Eisenhower's second Secretary of the Treasury, as special U.S. emissary to work out "a just and fair agreement." As the new Ambassador to Panama, he named Latin American Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, an ex-boxer and Marine captain. Said Johnson: "This...
...returns" were predominant in the news last week. Secretary McNamara flew back from his fourth visit to South Vietnam and Henry Cabot Lodge won a surprising victory in New Hampshire Taken together these returns should prompt a third, the resignation of Ambassador Lodge, and his exit from Saigon...