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Minutes after 3 p.m.. the meeting broke up. Prince Souvanna Phouma strode out onto the porch, gave the railing a resounding slap. "Voila!" he cried. "Le gouvernement!" Soldiers of the three armies broke into cheers, and TV cameramen shouted for a word in English. Beaming. Souvanna replied: "I cannot speak English. I can only say-it is all O.K.'' Souvanna's enthusiasm was shared in Moscow. Nikita Khrushchev fired off a cable to President John Kennedy hailing the creation of a neutral Laotian government as "good news" in the "cause of strengthening peace in Southeast Asia...
...trying to shock, but not joking either. His canvases seem to many to be ghastly views into torment,half-decomposed portraits of things better left unpictured. But no one denies their power: put up last week in a big show at the Tate Gallery, they hit London like a slap in the face with a hunk of raw meat...
...bilateral tariff cuts by that date, the recent U.S. decision to raise duties on imported woven carpets and window glass prompted the Common Market to take a step in the opposite direction. Warned the council: unless there is "modification or satisfactory arrangement" of the U.S. tariff boosts, it will slap retaliatory taxes on goods it now buys from...
...wrote, "started out black with the bald announcement that Mrs. Kennedy's trip was 'purely political' and that she wanted the fashion angle played down. Fashion hasn't had such a slap in the face in years. Second to politics? It was enough to make any fashion editor...
...imported cotton textiles. Simultaneously, the Administration was pressing 19 textile-producing foreign nations to sign a five-year gentleman's agreement that in effect would freeze foreign exports of cotton textiles to the U.S. at roughly 1961 levels. The White House is also considering a plan to slap similar restrictions on foreign wool, silk and synthetics...