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Vodka & Caviar. Neither Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Senator George nor Senator Knowland had any basic quarrel with the President's views. All agreed that the possibility of a four-power conference should be carefully-most carefully-explored. In a conversation with a friend, Dulles once put his finger on the Administration's wariness of top-level meetings with vague agenda...
...until last week, radio had been unobtrusively celebrating its 35th anniversary, but then Ed Sullivan decided to give broadcasting a TV salute on his Toast of the Town. However, NBC, still pursuing the quarrel it claims CBS started, refused to let its brightest stars attend. Dependable Jack Benny ran off one of his faultless comic monologues; George Burns added some needed spice; and H. V. Kaltenborn did a funny job of imitating Harry S. Truman imitating H. V. Kaltenborn after the 1948 election...
Last week, with the West now trying to make them realize a common need&#defense against Communism-the Arab League states broke into a noisy quarrel. The uproar was provoked by Iraq's decision to join a defense alliance with NATO member Turkey. Iraq's pact collided with the league's strictures against members joining in outside alliance. More to the point, it meant that Iraq, second strongest of the Arab nations, was openly challenging Egypt's position as the presumed leader of the Arab world...
...fiction of Arab League unity was coming to an end. But the quarrel has its encouraging side: so long mistrustful of the West and tending to neutralism, the Arabs are debating not whether to throw in with the West, but when...
...build a personal machine within the party. But at the national party conference a fortnight ago, he rashly got himself identified with party diehards, who want to discard Palmiro Togliatti's "soft" policy for tough methods (TIME, Jan. 24). Because Moscow has decreed there should be no public quarrel now, Comrade Togliatti waited his chance to serve a cold dish to Pietro Secchia...