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...announced last week, that problem is solved by a complex device: if the merger goes through, Pan American will become a holding company with a 63% interest in the merged airline-which will be called Pan Am World Airlines. TWA shareholders will receive stock (on a share-for-share swap) in the new airline, but none in the holding company. This will permit Trippe, who will be chief executive of both the holding company and the airline, to vote the holding company stock in a block-and thereby consistently outvote the Hughes share...
...Never advocated a swap of bases, but merely predicted correctly that Khrushchev might bring up the matter. Stevenson's suggested response: to tell Khrushchev that the matter of foreign bases was already on the agenda of disarmament talks, but that those talks could not even begin until the weapons were out of Cuba. Says a White House aide and former hawk: "Anyone who did not think about the bases as possible points that would be raised in any negotiations after the blockade would have been nutty...
...praise for the Governor's performance in the U.N. Contrary to the allegations of Alsop and Bartlett, Stevenson contributed to the successful outcome of the Cuban showdown: he supported the arms blockade and opposed an invasion of Cuba at the risk of nuclear war. Stevenson never advocated a swap, as he did on October 27. On Stevenson's advice Kennedy postponed his blockade speech, thus gaining OAS support...
...wilderness wares are acknowledged to be among the world's best, and each day as many as 5,000 letters flow into the company's rambling yellow factory and mail order headquarters in Freeport, Me. (pop. 4,000). Not long ago, someone in Bali offered to swap two native wood carvings for a pair of Bean hunting boots, and the deal was made. But despite the countless thousands of flashlights, snowshoes and compasses it has sold since its founding half a century ago, L. L. Bean has yet to work its way out of the woods: the firm...
...comes. "If you don't think we are ready to make war over Cuba, you are mistaken," added Ryzhov. Reportedly, Premier Inonu's response to the nuclear threat was: "Don't make me laugh." The Turks stood firm, just as President Kennedy did when the Turkish swap offer arrived at his desk. In Khrushchev's third and final note, he reverted to his first offer, agreed to withdraw the missiles for a no-invasion offer...