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Kennedy's habit of taking guests to the White House by helicopter nearly ran into a snag with Liberia's Tubman, who is distrustful of planes and came to the U.S. by boat. But Kennedy aides tactfully suggested that Tubman might like to see autumnal Washington from the air-and he agreed. Disregarding strict protocol, Kennedy arrived at the front door of the White House five minutes early for a luncheon with Tubman, quizzed the leader of the Marine band about what music he intended to play. Tubman was treated to a four-hour talk with Kennedy...
...DISARMAMENT, based on the long preliminary talks between the U.S. and Russia, leading to formal reports by each to the U.N. last week, in which both nations agree in general to complete disarmament but do not see eye to eye on how to achieve it. Again the snag is inspection; the U.S. insists on it, Russia says talk about it later. At the U.N., Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk threw his weight behind the idea of inspectors from neutral nations...
...apparent to Philadelphia's Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore. Years ago, they began swapping students and professors. Now Bryn Mawr alone offers geology, cutting costs for the other schools. Haverford and Bryn Mawr share sociology, cutting costs for Swarthmore, which, in turn, is strongest in psychology. The schools snag high-priced professors by splitting their salaries. Last year they also got a $136,000 Ford Foundation grant for Asian studies, a project too ambitious for any of them to have handled alone...
...private art galleries in Poland and no private collectors, Selz made the rounds of artists' studios, as well as the museums, libraries and courthouses where the state hangs the art it buys directly from the artist. When the time came to select the paintings, Selz ran into a snag: the government overextended its helpfulness by wanting to exercise final authority on what...
Most of the foreign workers are pleased with their lot; at government insistence, they get all the benefits that German workers do, including wages that start at a legal minimum of 65? an hour. But one West German recruiting scheme hit a snag last week. Badly in need of trained labor for his Hamburg shipyards, German Tycoon Willy Schlieker wants to hire up to 500 Scottish shipyard workers who have been threatened with layoffs or slow business at home. But despite his willingness to import a British cook along with them, Schlieker has not been able to get even...