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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
While its Communist neighbors, Red China and North Viet Nam, hurled threats by radio, tiny Laos last week tried desperately to set its house in order. Tough, grizzled General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, veteran of jungle battles against the French, Chinese, North Viet Nam Reds, and the home-grown Communists of the Pathet Lao, was ordered to solve by force a problem that had not yielded to nearly two years of diplomacy. His task: to integrate into the 25,000 man Royal Laotian army two Communist battalions...
...York Academy of Medicine-have urged adoption of the British system, Judge Murtagh has no hope that anything so revolutionary would be accepted in the U.S. In Who Live in Shadow, written with Sara Harris and published this week (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), Murtagh offers a compromise prescription: ¶ Set up facilities under federal auspices for treating narcotics addicts in all major cities...
...three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
Fish-Bowl Policy. The fund that has done more than any other to put shares in the household sugar bowl is Massachusetts Investors Trust, oldest and big gest of the mutual funds and the one that set the pattern for all the rest. M.I.T is a child of Boston, which has raised the handling of O.P.M. (other people's money) to the status of a fine art. The art was born of an 1830 court decision, the "Prudent Man Rule." In settling a suit charging a trustee with negligence in investing in common stocks, the judge held that...