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...steps of the Château de Champs, the magnificently paneled onetime home of Madame Pompadour. It has become Macmillan's custom to make contact with France's haughty leader at least once a year. But this time it was especially important for the two statesmen to have their leisurely hours together in the French countryside, for Europe is moving into decisive times; bargains made, friendships hardened, grievances dissolved could have an impact on the world's future for decades to come...
...major result of the Bill. Not only is this far from the Free Trade spirit (which seeks to increase the total volume of trade, imports and exports); it is surprisingly naive, in the face of the Common Market's manifest protection-mindedness. Despite the speeches of European statesmen, there is little evidence of genuine Free Trad sentiment there either...
While Europe's statesmen bickered over conflicting plans for political union, the Common Market last week passed the halfway mark in its drive for European economic unity. Racing 2½ years ahead of its original program, which calls for reduction of internal customs barriers in three easy stages until they are abolished entirely by 1970, the Common Market's Council of Ministers voted unanimously in Brussels to start its second round of tariff cutting next July 1 instead of waiting until 1965. According to the accelerated schedule, which had been tentatively agreed upon in May 1960, customs duties...
Though many of the Adamses were trained as lawyers, John Adams was one of the few in this family of statesmen, scholars, and writers who practiced intensively and attained eminence at the Bar. His diary for June 16, 1780 the young lawyer asking: "How many Actions shall I secure this Day? What new Client shall I have? I found at Evening, I had secured 6 Actions, but not one new Client, that I know...
...Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...