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...friendship and cooperation presently existing among them. Private U.S. investment capital in Europe and the Americas alone would preclude any "dismissal" of these areas as secondary to the core interests of the U.S. Even if the U.S. were to "write off" these areas as soft regions, there would be scant likelihood of their developing Communist political systems, at least of the Moscow-Peking variety. Present tendencies in Europe and the Americas are toward a more nationalistic brand of Communism and socialism...
...that there be no voting in the 19th Assembly until Russia pays at least one-third of its arrears. As a result, the Assembly has so far been idly discussing matters requiring no vote, while behind the scenes a search for a compromise goes on-thus far with scant success...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...
With a total of $483,000 paid for 40 works in a scant hour, Peregrine Pollen, representative of Parke-Bernet's new owner, Sotheby's of London, saw nothing but blue sky ahead for U.S. modern art. "Breaking records doesn't mean too awfully much, does it?" said Pollen. "Look at the mile. It's broken every...
...first postwar decade, Joseph Stalin's meddling in the Middle East was largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East...