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...Nothing will happen on Oct. 23," Kadar's spokesmen had predicted sternly. And on Oct. 23, under the menace of the nine Soviet divisions which ringed Budapest, nothing visible happened...
HERMANN JOSEF ABS, director of the powerful Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt and a personal adviser to Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard (see cover), is generally recognized as one of the most influential spokesmen for the dynamic and prosperous German Federal Republic. In San Francisco, where he celebrated his 56th birthday last week during the I.I.D.C. conference, stocky Hermann Abs also emerged as an incisive spokesman for Western capitalism everywhere...
Caught cold by this counterstroke, Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming could only cite the "formidable difficulties" in the way of Thorneycroft's plan. Spokesmen for Canada's automobile, textile and electrical-appliance industries quickly and hotly seconded him. Fleming thereupon hastened to spell out far more specifically than ever before what his government had in mind in making the original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases...
Third Party? In the South, furious Democrats first lashed at Ike, then almost as quickly at their Northern cousins. One of the loudest spokesmen was South Carolina's jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats...
They seek to stop radioactive fallout, which some scientists say has already reached the point where it endangers present and future generations. Western spokesmen have argued that to suspend tests without otherwise disarming would hurt the West's nuclear power while preserving the Russians' advantage in manpower...