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...split-level decision, the nation's loftiest heroes got the wall-to-wall carpeting pulled out from under them. A week after the seven U.S. astronauts received tacit NASA consent to accept fully furnished, $24,000 houses as a gift from the Houston Home Builders Association, Pathfinder John Glenn showed up in Washington for what was rumored to be White House-inspired reconsideration. The result: an announcement that the astronauts will pass up the gift houses out of a somewhat belated recognition that misunderstanding of their motives "would undercut the stature of the astronauts and of the space program...
...likely to be durable anyway unless they reflect the interests of both sides and it may be easier for each both sides and it may be easier for each side to exercise restraint than to promise to do so. These ideas have been developed in the discussions of tacit bargaining by Professor Schelling and extensively in the writings of Professor Charles E. Osgood of Illinois. The Defense Department has recently solicited proposals for an extended study of arms control measures which the United States might undertake on its own (Project Unicorn...
...that thaw. There was a further meaning to the exchange. Although the U.S. under Eisenhower had admitted the purpose of Powers' flight over the Soviet Union, Russia had never so much as admitted that Abel existed. The trade of the two men last week was at least a tacit Soviet admission that Abel, like Powers, was a spy. In the exchange, the Communists also released Frederic L. Pryor, a 28-year-old American who was taking a graduate course in economics in West Berlin when he blundered into East Berlin last summer. He was arrested and had been held...
...Affairs, an unconditional Gaullist, who is in charge of the delicate treaty dealings with the Moslem F.L.N. Back from a quick visit to Algeria. Joxe pointed out that the bloodletting in the cities was obscuring the peace and quiet of the populous countryside. He seemed to hint that a tacit cease-fire already existed between the French army and the F.L.N. to enable the Gaullist government to deal with Salan. The F.L.N. was reported ready to 1 ) recognize the "quasi-permanent'' nature of several French military bases in Algeria, 2) concede that Algeria's economic future is linked to France...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk still hoped that things eventually would simmer down to tacit agreement to leave things the way they are, with both sides talking on indefinitely. "What we'd like," said a State Department aide last week, "is to reach that stage when we open the morning paper and read, 'Ambassador Thompson and Mr. Gromyko held their 89th meeting on Berlin yesterday...