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...pronounced Apple-achin') in upstate New York. A state cop stumbled onto it almost by accident: he noticed droves of big black Cadillacs and Imperials pouring into town from all directions, traced them to the place where they converged, and barged in on 60 of the most senior statesmen in U.S. organized crime. On sight of a uniform, the hoods fled through the woods like so many Br'er Rabbits with Br'er Fox hot on their heels. A few of them have never since been seen in civilized society. Those who were nabbed told pretty much...
GENEVA--The Big Four foreign ministers agreed last night on a two-day break in their talks to allow statesmen to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles in Washington. The conference will be in recess Wednesday and Thursday...
Perhaps the State Department was too much "under the Secretary's hat," perhaps we will not mourn the absence of "brinkmanship" and "massive retaliation." Nonetheless, Mr. Dulles' forceful leadership and unyielding moral strength are an inheritance future statesmen can be proud...
Little known to his countrymen, 47-year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroad-and what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has often sounded like one. A brilliant lawyer and civil servant before World War II, an organizer of the Gaullist Resistance during the war, Debré after the war became known in the French Senate for his scathing attacks on the leaders of the Fourth Republic, his nationalistic outbursts against European...
This crumbling of the Old Order of statesmen may be the best thing that has happened to Western-Soviet relations in a long time. Certainly the ideals of a Dulles or an Adenauer should not and, hopefully, will not be sacrificed in an Era of Compromise-if such is forthcoming. If there are Western leaders who can parry and thrust with the best of the Communists then now is certainly the time for them to appear...