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...other major thrust, Kennedy took dead aim at France's Charles de Gaulle, whose lofty vision of a future Europe not only excludes U.S. influence but presupposes that the U.S. would not make good its promises to help defend the Continent: "Those who would doubt our pledge, those who would separate Europe from America or split one ally from another, would only give aid and comfort to the men who make themselves our adversaries and welcome any Western disarray. It is not in our interest to try to dominate European councils of decision. . . I repeat again, so that there...
...Bell Aerosystems Co. to build a plane (the X-22) that can take off and land almost vertically. The odd-shaped craft will have a 39-ft. rear wing, stubby forward wings and four 7-ft.-diameter propeller ducts that can be directed at the ground for vertical thrust. When horizontal, they will help push the plane to 350 m.p.h...
...killed by royal kindness. The son of Madame de Montespan, Louis' most beautiful mistress, he became protégé of Madame de Maintenon, Louis' most enduring love. Thoughtful, diffident, unworldly, the Due had no gift for the great stage onto which fate and father thrust...
...Last week Baldwin was in California, hopping from city to city to talk to college and high school students. Thrust from typewriter to rostrum by virtue of a widely acclaimed, blistering essay in The New Yorker (TIME, Jan. 4), now in book form under the title The Fire Next Time, Baldwin spared his audiences nothing. He spoke not for himself but for all Negroes to all whites. "I hoed a lot of cotton," he said. "I laid a lot of track. I dammed a lot of rivers. You wouldn't have had this country if it hadn't been...
...wild enthusiasm of Reims and Epernay, the champagne capital, more than compensated for the silent workers at Donchery and Rocroi. who stood with hands thrust into blue overall pockets as le grand Charles drove...