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After long debate, the conference vetoed a Danish proposal to use NATO as a springboard for an East-West conference on basic issues that divide Europe. Not that the ministers were opposed to a settlement: they encouraged all "initiatives" of any NATO nation to improve East-West relationships. At the same time, however, even Couve de Murville agreed with Secretary of State Rusk that it is still too early for outright accommodation between the two opposing blocs. There is an obvious interest in moving toward peace with Russia, said Rusk, but "the main ingredient is our own solidarity...
...bikini, wiggling her way into the hearts of photographers; Simone Signoret's smoldering stare set the place afire back in 1949; Sophia Loren jumped from bulging starlet to blossoming actress when she made the scene in 1955. Ever since it began, the Cannes Film Festival has been a springboard for victory and vulgarity, for fine art and flapdoodle. This year the festival is 20 years old, but it is still deep in the throes of adolescence: serious and intense one moment, strained and silly the next...
...also means much more. It means to counter the Red revolution with a genuine revolution in health, education, welfare and self-sufficiency for the Vietnamese that the Communists can hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia. There are signs that they are already beginning to regret it. The U.S. has picked up the gauntlet, and it is not only Vietnamese nationhood but all of free Asia that stands to be ultimately strengthened by the extraordinary-and still burgeoning-commitment of the lives...
...National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy. And on a loftier level, while the Republican Party has some outstanding and attractive potential presidential candidates among Governors (Romney, Scranton, et al.), a governorship no longer seems as strong a springboard to national office as it used to be. Increasingly, voters seem to want national experience and exposure in their national candidates...
...Capitol Hill for the next two years-the most lopsided Democratic Congress since the one that convened in 1937. If Lyndon Johnson has anything to say about it, it will also be one of the hardest-working sessions in memory, for he means to use it as his springboard to the Great Society. Contemplating the President's legislative program, Senator Everett Dirksen remarked wearily that "there would easily be enough to engross the time and the attention not of one but of a number of Congresses...