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...President John F. Kennedy sped across the face of Europe last week amidst a clamor of headlines and admiring stares for his wife. But the men and nations that he visited in his brief days there were preoccupied with problems of their own, which existed before he came and would linger after he had gone...
...ambitious new five-year plan. In a move that startled the club's other members, the U.S. upped the ante, offered to put up $1 billion singlehanded-if the other club members would match the sum. Jolted and impressed, the other members (Canada, West Germany, Britain, Japan) sped home to check their exchequers. Last week they not only came back with matching pledges, but also with a new member for the club: France. As a result, the six nations and the World Bank will provide India with a whopping $2,225,000,000 in low-cost loans and credits...
...things now," said a high-up White House aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing Kennedy's offer to aid South Viet Nam with new infusions of money and advisers in its struggle against Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare (see following story...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...
...point where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan finally stepped in and ordered the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the entire British press situation. It seemed high time. The take-over of Odhams by either King or Thomson would accelerate a postwar trend toward merger and monopoly, sped by rising labor and production costs and serious advertising losses to television, that has placed control of more than half Britain's newspaper circulation in the hands of four press lords. Besides King and Thomson, the giants...