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...Southeast Asia by dismantling any of its own major bases east of Suez. Johnson, in turn, promised to support Britain's embargo on oil shipments to Rhodesia by offering U.S. aircraft to fly oil into landlocked Zambia during the crisis. Prime Minister Wilson was so cheered by his rapport with the President that he confided after the talks: "We are as close together as Churchill and Roosevelt ever were...
Pravda's Favorite. Wallace, who had little rapport with Truman, clung to his practice of speaking out on foreign affairs. As the shadow of Soviet imperialism lengthened over Europe, he advocated a conciliatory line toward the nation's wartime ally. On Sept. 12, 1946, he made a celebrated speech condemning the Administration's hardening attitude toward the Soviets at the very moment that the U.S. was sparring with Stalin over Europe's post-war boundaries. Infuriated by Wallace's intrusion, which suggested that the U.S. was disunited on the Cold War issues he was negotiating...
...coming up fastest in the campaign: Jean Lecanuet, 45, a Senator from Seine-Maritime and recently president of the Catholic center M.R.P. (Mouvement Républicain Populaire) party. Already being hailed by his supporters and the press as "the French Kennedy" because of his telegenic good looks and stylish rapport with crowds, Lecanuet in a mere month has raised himself from obscurity to importance with the cry, "Why does France not have a young President?" He is hitting De Gaulle hard on Europe, and to le général's condescending pronouncement that the choice for France...
...rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell, I'm going to take pictures no matter what happens,' there is a mystic rapport, somehow, between you and the animals. At that point, I am just as high as a human being...
...enthusiastic reception which the audience gave the orchestra was rivalled only by the HRO's obvious adoration of its new conductor. If it is this rapport which has brought the orchestra to its present level of accomplishment, then no one should miss a concert as long as the HRO is led by Dr. Yannatos...