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Paris summit meeting and launch a series of crises that continued beyond the Administration of Dwight Eisenhower through the first year of John Kennedy's New Frontier. Only in recent weeks had there seemed to be signs of thaw-and the Powers-Abel exchange was certainly the most dramatic evidence to date of 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...
Despite the signs of thaw, one of the coldest of cold war decisions could not be held off much longer. Last week, discussing the possibility of a nuclear test agreement with the Soviet Union, President Kennedy left the door open-but just barely. He urged that the two great cold war adversaries make a final try for a test-ban treaty at an 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva next month; he insisted at his press conference that the U.S. would not only demand monitors to detect Russian tests, but would require an inspection system against any Soviet test preparations...
After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display...
...Soviet postwar relations have gone through cycles of freeze and mild thaw-but the Kennedy Administration has experienced mainly cold weather. When Kennedy first took office, he naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist crisis stirring while his Administration got its house in order...
...Jackson police used dogs to break up a Negro demonstration: "When savages don't know how to behave themselves, it is necessary to resort to some effective method of maintaining order." He once described the South's race problem as "an ovenful of rattlesnakes just about to thaw. Either somebody with wisdom had better cut off the heat or there are deadly hatching days ahead...