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...Macmillan, arguing that "all espionage is in effect a violation of sovereignty, and espionage is an unpleasant fact of life." He didn't see how it was possible to make much distinction between one form of espionage and another. De Gaulle urged a day's recess, and strongly reminded Nikita that his avowed intention of publishing his speech was the one thing that would make continuance of the conference virtually impossible...
...leader of the U.S. Senate, and a leading Democratic aspirant for the U.S. presidency, was taking a well-deserved rest. He had safely escorted the second civil rights bill since Reconstruction (TIME, April 18) through 53 energy-sapping days of stormy debate, and the Senate-his Senate-was in recess for the Easter holidays. But Johnson yielded only his lanky body to the therapy of the sun; his restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty secretary tapped out a just-dictated letter; when Johnson...
...angry howls of "Resign . . . resign." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose Laborites have long insisted that Blue Streak should not have been undertaken in the first place, was on his feet demanding an immediate investigation; when he was refused, he promised to force a vote of censure after the Easter recess. Tory backbenchers were shocked. It was, said Conservative F. W. Farey-Jones, a "calamitous" move, and one that would put Britain's proud science "in pawn to the U.S. for the next 25 to 50 years...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, will take a leave of absence for the Fall Term next year to attend the summer Olympics in Rome. Bolles was notified during the Christmas recess that his request to travel abroad with his wife and daughter had been granted by the Corporation...
...director of the Adams House production, which is scheduled to open Thursday, said that "not only had the set been taken down, but it had been ripped into little pieces which were left strewn all over the stage.' The scenery, which was finished before the Christmas recess, had taken ten days to build...