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Kennedy and Macmillan rejected the invitation, but hinted they might show up later if the early stages of the party seemed promising (TIME, Feb. 23). Attacking that reply as rude and destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament...
...soon as the nation's second and third domestic airlines-American and Eastern-declared their agreement to merge, opposition revved up on all sides last week. Other airlines, fearing sharper competition, protested. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said the merger plan has "the most serious of monopolistic implications"; Representative Emanuel Celler said he would investigate. Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union worried about layoffs among the 9,000 American maintenance men that it represents, threatened to strike after Feb. 1 unless the two lines pledged that there would be no job cuts. Bobby Kennedy was yet to be heard...
...late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost been run out of town...
From Thorns to Roses. Canada's doubts about what lies ahead are all the sharper for the good times of the moment. Having just weathered a considerable recession, Canada is enjoying a substantial comeback. Going into the new year, gross national product is clipping along at a record $36.8 billion annual rate, and unemployment, which hit an icy 11.3% last winter, has thawed to a more livable 5.4%. Steel, autos, housing, oil and gas production are all strong. Most spectacular of all in the upturn is foreign trade-the very issue that stirs all the debate...
...occasion was a pilot demonstration of what the American Academy of General Practice calls Project MORE. The name, no acronym, reflects the academy's urge to recruit more premedical students and thus aid in the production of more doctors, especially G.P.s. Even sharper than the threat of an overall shortage of doctors in the U.S. is the growing scarcity of "family doctors," as more and more medical graduates go immediately into specialty training. The ratio of family doctors (including some specialists, notably internists, but mostly general practitioners) has dropped from one to 1,100 population...