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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Shaky Troika | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Distort into Reality | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: The Halfway Mark | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Potent Force | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: King Cotton's Ransom | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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