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Time after time, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter and his colleagues had refused to believe that nyet means "no." Until the very last moment, their reaction to every Russian rejection of their proposals had been to fish out another minor concession or two with which to tempt Gromyko. Result was that by last week's recess, they had exhausted all the painless compromises the West had to offer, while Gromyko had barely begun to unwrap his stony-eyed alternatives...
After a loss to Cornell which no one noticed, Boston's attention focused on wisps of smoke above the Vatican and the elevation of Cardinal Cushing--events which monopolized local front pages as to tempt readers to forget the Reformation had ever taken place. Occasionally politics managed to break into the headlines. Senator Kennedy returned to Cambridge, and, in an attempt to capture the "outer fringe" vote, dined with Councilman Al Vellucci...
...been making noises about breaking his 14-year-old alliance with Italy's 2,000,000-strong Communist Party. Nenni condemned the Russian smashing of the Hungarian revolt, and privately he calls the Reds "black beasts." With this in mind, Fanfani designed his semi-Socialist program partly to tempt the Nenni Socialists into part-time support of his government. Alarmed, the right-wing Christian Democratic faction of ex-Premier Guiseppe Pella warned Fanfani that they would leave the party if they were "betrayed by this unnatural association with Marxism...
...Chicago show the new word in the furniture men's vocabulary was "elegance.'' To tempt the growing U.S. luxury market, the buyers want-and are getting-better designs and higher quality. Prices may go up 3% or so in 1959, but for his money the consumer will get better furniture. Said one Seattle retailer: "There was a long period when manufacturers had atrocious taste in furniture-that day is gone...
...Said Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I don't see a major selloff, but this level will tempt a lot of companies into financing, and these rights offerings may take some of the upward pressure from the blue chips. Specialties should move up while the rest of the market churns...