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Last week, with this in mind, the U.S. decided to give him the kind of public backing it has hitherto withheld. To Paris flew U.S. Information Agency Chief George V. Allen to address the 50th anniversary session of the Comité France-Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also...
...carried his vote 57 to 45. But the two leftist parties in his coalition voted against the motion. Lacking constitutional power to sack members of his own Cabinet, but denouncing what he called a "breach of faith" by the four leftist ministers, B-G stormed out of a Cabinet session roaring: "This is the last time I sit with them." At week's end he resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker government until the next elections. In this case, unforgiving Premier...
...world should ever issue something comparable to Poor's Index of business trustees and their innumerable directorships. Dr. Satya Prakash of India would be high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other...
...clangor of political strife resounded in Washington last week-not Democrats attacking Republicans, or vice versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...Democrats "a mandate to write a Democratic program ... I suggest it is our responsibility to write that kind of program and send it to the President today, next week, and every week until this Congress adjourns, and to come back and do it all over again at the second session." To capture the White House in 1960, Clark said, the party would need to write a Democratic record. "If the people cannot detect any difference between the parties, why should they wish to make a change...