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...sits in one of the big black wooden chairs beside his desk-just to chat. In Palm Beach she strides hand in hand with her father on shopping sprees along Worth Avenue, and aboard the Honey Fitz she likes to sit with feet dangling over the side and swap stories with the crew...
...returned again to become Prime Ministers." The bitter taste of defeat was everywhere.' Dollies piled with files shuttled back and forth, transferring Diefenbaker's papers from the three offices a Prime Minister commands in Ottawa to the single office accorded the Opposition leader. He also had to swap houses, and prepared to take his belongings from the 30-room mansion on Sussex Drive to Stornoway, the house maintained for the Opposition by a group of Canadian businessmen. Then there was the cut in pay-$37,000 a year for Mike Pearson now, $27,000 for Diefenbaker as Opposition...
Snooper Boss. Park's generals became openly restive soon after his decision to restore civilian political rule (TIME, Dec. 28), at least in name. In fact, junta members planned merely to swap their khaki for mufti and continue to run the country; Park himself was the leading candidate for the presidency. This pleasant prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With...
Solid v Liquid. Months before Khrushchev suggested his Cuba-for-Turkey swap, the Joint Chiefs had begun considering the phase-out of bases in Turkey, Italy, and in England as well. The dismantling of the 60 Thor missiles in Britain is to begin this spring. More than compensating for their loss are eight Polaris subs operating out of Holy Loch, Scotland, each toting 16 missiles. To replace the 15 Jupiters in Turkey and the 30 in Italy, the U.S. plans to deploy possibly six subs in Mediterranean waters. Total firepower: 96 missiles, each with a nuclear-tipped warhead packing...
...pass on to their children; the jobs are their legacies. If it is taken away from them to be replaced by a vague promise that "automation will make new jobs for their children," they have only to look around them to see they are making a very risky swap...