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...sooner had Wilson gaveled the motion into debate than a fog of dissent sprang up around it. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, recent host to Peking's Premier Chou Enlai, complained that the idea unfairly "put China in the dock," adding that "if Hanoi refuses to see the committee, the whole thing will be a blow to the Commonwealth." Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan argued that Wilson also should not be a member. Ayub's reason: Britain is too deeply committed to the U.S. to join a truly "nonaligned" peace initiative. Malaysia's Tunku...
Room & Board. All this success has only whetted Restaurant Associates' appetite for new and versatile ventures. The company sprang from humble beginnings as Manhattan's low-priced Riker's coffee-shop chain, changed its name to Restaurant Associates in 1945 and expanded into concession snack bars and cafeterias for the military. With that background, Restaurant Associates feels that it can do something to vitalize the Waldorf chain without compromising the attractive image of its expensive restaurants...
...Congress of Racial Equality has been so active in the North that people often forget that it is deeply involved in the South. CORE sprang to national attention in 1961 as the organization which sponsored the Freedom Rides and the first national group to organize...
...method was to dig a shaft straight down, sometimes 40 ft. or more, to the deposits; the diggers climbed in and out by bracing their feet and backs against the wall. As shafts went down too closely together, many collapsed; others filled with water. A shanty town sprang up next to the pasture, with a hotel, hundreds of lean-tos and tents. The local dentist kept his tools soaked in cachaga liquor; the baker sold bread at five times the normal price; and a small army of prostitutes paraded around the diggings, lining up appointments...
...Dynamite Juggler. He dismisses Roosevelt as an amateur whose interest in Europe probably sprang from "his hobby of stamp collecting. But the academic yet sweeping opinions which he built upon it were alarming in their cheerful fecklessness. Too much a conjuror, skillfully juggling with balls of dynamite whose nature he failed to understand." All told, Eden preferred Joe Stalin, though he did not trust him: "Indeed, after something like 30 years' experience of international conferences, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course...