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Slowly recovering from the hacking cough that has punctuated his speeches and conversation since Inauguration Day, President Eisenhower last week was discomforted by further complications. Striding into his 103rd press conference, the President surveyed his audience through eyes moist and red-rimmed from a stubborn head cold. Tamped into his left ear was a medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis...
...word of the U.S. offer flashed through Israel, citizens who had just paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship...
Election year in West Germany is producing some strange surprises. Last week, after seven years of stubborn resistance to the Western alliance and all its works and most of its ways, West Germany's opposition Socialists declared themselves ready to accept NATO...
...free Poland. At first, the politically ill-assorted, mutually suspicious underground leaders fell easy prey to the Germans. The flamboyance of the rank and file who took to wearing "uniforms" of top boots and padded jackets also led to wholesale arrests. Yet out of blundering and indecision, the stubborn Poles whipped together perhaps the most potent underground fighting force in Europe. Author Korbonski, a lawyer, had charge of communications, and tells in compelling detail how within four months he established radio contact with London and built up a succession of hideouts for his transmitters. The underground had its own court...
...Leader. Last week by unanimous vote Free Democrat bosses picked a new leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...