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...when it became patently clear that there was a wide-open, undefended path through Canada for Soviet bombers, Canadian defense officials began secret nuclear negotiations with the U.S. Diefenbaker still hedged. Returning from a Nassau meeting with British Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy, during which Britain agreed to scrap Skybolt bomber-carried missiles in return for Polaris-armed submarines, Diefenbaker told Parliament that bombers had been ruled obsolete. Therefore, he said, there was no need for Canadian nuclear de fense against a transpolar Russian strike...
...slightly oldfangled institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the strain shows like a taut cable in its 28th Biennial Exhibition. The manner of hanging the show is selfconscious: all the stripes in one room, all the figures in another, all the old auto parts and welded scrap metal in a third. The 145 paintings, chosen from among more than 4,000 submitted as colored slides, display a comic propensity for dated titles: November 25th, July III, 23 September 1959, July 20, '61, Between March and April. Even the winner of the $2,000 first prize belongs...
Neither man admits to any desire to become a press lord, but Washington Post Publisher Philip L. Graham and Chicago Sun-Times Publisher Marshall Field are locked in an expanding scrap for the next spot in U.S. journalism's Almanack de Gotha...
After the Rev. Cecil Myers concluded his evening sermon on the topic "You Can Start Right Over Now," the lights of Atlanta's Grace Methodist Church were dimmed. The choir sang softly, and members of the 1,200-strong congregation, each bearing a tightly folded scrap of paper, began to crowd the aisles. As each worshiper reached the altar, he dropped his twist of paper into one of a dozen burning urns; some knelt for a moment in prayer before returning to their pews...
Harvard, however, which appears to be pulling itself together, might be able to bother Cornell. Coach Wilson is on record as saying that if his team gets by Columbia, it should "give Cornell a good scrap...